Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.

To me consensus seems to be - the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no-one believes, but to which no-one objects.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

The accumulation of wealth is a process which is of itself morally neutral. True, as Christianity teaches, riches bring temptations. But then so does poverty.

[When asked how it felt to be a female prime minister:] I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative.

It is absolutely right that President Reagan considers SDI and thank goodness people considered nuclear research before the last war.

In order to unscramble some eggs the leader gotta have some balls