...Conservatives have excellent credentials to speak about human rights. By our efforts, and with precious little help from self-styled liberals, we were largely responsible for securing liberty for a substantial share of the world's population and defending it for most of the rest.
Margaret ThatcherI usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
Margaret ThatcherPeople think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.
Margaret ThatcherI cannot imagine how any diplomat, or any dramatist, could improve on (Ronald Reagan's) words to Mikhail Gorbachev at the Geneva summit: 'Let me tell you why it is we distrust you.' Those words are candid and tough and they cannot have been easy to hear. But they are also a clear invitation to a new beginning and a new relationship that would be rooted in trust.
Margaret Thatcher