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Margaret Thatcher6 quotes
In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman. — Margaret Thatcher · 1965They are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first. — Margaret Thatcher · 1987Pennies don't fall from heaven, they have to be earned here on earth. — Margaret Thatcher · 1979In my lifetime, all the problems have come mainland Europe, and all the solutions have come from the English-speaking nations across the world. — Margaret Thatcher · 1999No-one would remember the good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well. — Margaret Thatcher · 1980We must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend. — Margaret Thatcher · 1985