People are really rather afraid that this country might be rather swamped by people with a different culture.
Margaret ThatcherAny woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
Margaret ThatcherYou can present people with ideas they may come to believe in, and as a result of them they will act, if they have the opportunities. Presenting people with opportunities is part of what politics is about.
Margaret ThatcherPlatitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Margaret ThatcherWhile the Soviet Union has imposed its rule on its neighbours and drawn an iron curtain between east and west, we in Great Britain have given freedom and independence to more than forty-eight countries whose populations now number more than a thousand million - a quarter of the world's total.
Margaret Thatcher