I think, historically, the term 'Thatcherism' will be seen as a compliment.

People are really rather afraid that this country might be rather swamped by people with a different culture.

We do not achieve happiness or salvation in isolation from each other but as members of society

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

I don't want to fight any wars; if you can get them off before we get there, you do it, but off they go.

Isn't a policy of conventional weapons, with the terrible bombs raining down, with the missiles, with the aircraft, with the submarines, with the torpedoes, with the tanks, with chemical weapons - isn't that based on the possibility of threat?

[On being asked how many Mrs. Thatchers there were:] Oh, three at least. There is the intellectual one, the intuitive one and the one at home.