Margaret Thatcher Quotes About Politics

Quotes about: Politics

• If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Inspirational, Funny, Wise

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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  I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Evil, Interesting

• I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Cheer, Mean, Thinking

  "Thatcher Put the "Great" Back in Great Britain" by Jack Kelly, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 14, 2013.

• Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Business, Two Sides, Decision

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

  Margaret Thatcher

  Running, Socialist Government, People

  "This Week" with Llew Gardner, www.margaretthatcher.org. February 5, 1976.

• The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Running, Freedom, Government

• First you win the argument, then you win the vote.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Winning, Politics, Firsts

• I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Patience, Perseverance, Powerful

  In Observer 4 Apr. 1989

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

  Margaret Thatcher

  Women, Rights, Coal Miners

  Quoted in Woman's Own, 31 Oct. 1987

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

  Margaret Thatcher

  Party, Believe, Mean

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

• One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Sex, Women, Politics

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

• When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment, it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Real, Issues, Hands

  On the Falklands campaign, 1982, in Chris Rose 'The Dirty Man of Europe'

• Yet the basic fact remains: every regulation represents a restriction of liberty, every regulation has a cost. That is why, like marriage (in the Prayer Book's words), regulation should not "be enterprised, nor taken in hand, unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly"

  Margaret Thatcher

  Prayer, Book, Taken

• We want a society in which we are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. That is what we mean by a moral society - not a society in which the State is responsible for everything, and no one is responsible for the State.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Mistake, Mean, Compassion

  1977 Speech, Zurich University, 14 Mar.

• We are not in politics to ignore peoples' worries, we are in politics to deal with them.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Worry, Politics, Deals

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

• There are no personal sympathies in politics.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Politics

• We very much hope that as we get growth that we can reduce the burden of taxation, that we can reduce income tax and increase the amount of genuine free enterprise and business enterprise... This is going... toward the restoration of the personal responsibility, the independence, with every man a property owner, every man a capitalist.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Wisdom, Responsibility, Men

• I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Long, Interesting, Political

  In Observer 27 Jan. 1980

• Political success is a good deal pleasanter than political failure, but it too brings its problems.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Political, Politics, Problem

• I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Government, People, Looks

• I have made it quite clear that a unified Ireland was one solution that is out. A second solution was a confederation of two states. That is out. A third solution was joint authority. That is out-that is a derogation of sovereignty.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Two, Government, Politics

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