No great goal was ever easily achieved.

We need a free economy not only for the renewed material prosperity it will bring, but because it is indispensable to individual freedom, human dignity and to a more just, more honest society.

Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.

I'll stay until I'm tired of it. So long as Britain needs me, I shall never be tired of it.

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

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

Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species-it is the tigress and lioness in you which tends to defend when attacked.