Margaret Thatcher

"One's life is more important than one's health because there's only one life."

"I've always had to fight for what I believe in."

"It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money."

"I believe the British people are now tired of strikes and want them called off."

"I respect men of independent thought."

"The Soviet Union remains evil. This is mutually advantageous; they need us as an enemy."

"We must not devalue the currency, this is the most corrosive thing, and it is the most damaging thing you can do."

"If my life wasn't funny, it would just be true, and that would be unacceptable."

"I am passionately interested in understanding how the mind works."

"Surely we have a moral obligation to those who are committed to us."

"The fact is, that to do nothing is in the eyes of any critics to do the wrong thing."

"I believe in the enterprise culture."

"My policies are based not on some economics theory, but on things I and millions like me were brought up with."

"Let them come and the rest of the world with them. It merely remains to be seen whether the British people keep their nerve."

"I do not know how anyone can govern without Christ."

"The Conservative Party must never sound nasty."

"A man may do an injury, but it ceases to be an injury the moment he is aware of it and strives to correct it."

"Results matter."

"If they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left."

"I have within me all the world, and all the world is within me."

"The Falkland Islanders are British citizens. That is the simple reason."

"Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because they are worth climbing."

"I'm not just any woman. I'm a very political woman."

"I would not want to live in a Britain in which there are areas where certain citizens feel alienated and excluded from the mainstream."

"A woman's place is in the House—and in the Cabinet."

"I've got the money. I've got the time. I've got the ambition. Now I just need the opportunity."

"To me consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies."

"I am in my element when it comes to the destruction of socialism."

"The greatest good of the greatest number is a major concern of mine."

"You do not achieve anything without trouble, ever."