I might have preferred iron - but bronze will do. It won't rust. This time I hope, the head will stay on.

If you want to get something said in the politics tell a man. If you want to get something done in the politics tell a woman

We need to create a mood where it is everywhere thought morally right for as many people as possible to acquire capital.

There is a nonsense about intelligent women not being beautiful.

I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

There is nothing inevitable about rising unemployment.

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.