669 Quotes by Margaret Thatcher

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

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    When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it will be called rent-a-spine.

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    The messages on our banners in 1979 – freedom, opportunity, family, enterprise, ownership – are now inscribed on the banners in Leipzig, Warsaw, Budapest and even Moscow.

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    Socialism lays an bad egg by killing the capitalism that lays the golden eggs.

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    When hecklers stand up, I get a mental jump for joy. It gives me something to get my teeth into – and the audiences love it.

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    It will be years – not in my time – before a woman will become Prime Minister.

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    I do wish I had brought my cheque book. I don’t believe in credit cards.

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