Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS, FRICwas a British stateswoman and politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and the Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to have held the office. A Soviet journalist dubbed her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. As...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth13 October 1925
CityGrantham, England
Consensus is the negation of leadership.
Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry.
When you take into public ownership a profitable industry the profits soon disappear. The goose that laid the golden eggs goes broody. State geese are not great layers.
You cannot make an omelet without breaking some balls
Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
You do not achieve anything without trouble, ever.
I wasn't lucky. I deserved it.
First you win the argument, then you win the vote.
There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
The European single currency is bound to fail, economically, politically and indeed socially, though the timing, occasion and full consequences are all necessarily still unclear.
I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work.