669 Quotes by Margaret Thatcher

The application of collective guilt, running from one generation to another, is a dangerous doctrine which would leave few modern nations unscathed.

I am always on the job.

[On George H.W. Bush:] By 1990 I had learned that I had to defer to him in conversation and not to stint the praise. If that was what was necessary to secure Britain's interests and influence, I had no hesitation in eating a little humble pie.

Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.

Major international interventions are doomed unless the US is directly or indirectly involved. But if American politicians, officials and servicemen are to be put at risk of arrest and prosecution, the United States will be most reluctant to act in order to curb aggression or prevent genocide. So the effect of the court may well be to diminish, not increase, the numbers of (in the words of the UN Secretary General) 'innocents of distant wars and conflicts'.

Naturally, it is with some temerity that the pupil speaks before the master, because you know more about the Common Market than anybody.

[On Ronald Reagan:] Poor dear, there's nothing between his ears.

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