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I think they've [Labour Government] made the biggest financial mess that any government's ever made in this country for a very long time, and Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them. They then start to nationalise everything, and people just do not like more and more nationalisation, and they're now trying to control everything by other means. They're progressively reducing the choice available to ordinary people.

– Margaret Thatcher

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If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldnt swim.

– Margaret Thatcher

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

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No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he only had good intentions. He had money as well.

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People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

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Perhaps I can summarise it best by saying this -- Nations that have pursued equality, like the Iron Curtain countries, I think have finished up with neither equality, nor liberty. Nations, which like us, in the past have pursued liberty, as a fundamental objective, extending it to all, have finished up with liberty, human dignity, and far fewer inequalities than other people.

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This lady is not for turning.

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You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

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When we gave the figure of 50 years, we were not speaking casually or on impulse, but in consideration of the realities in China and of our need for development.

– Margaret Thatcher

Found on CNN 2 years ago

In the coming weeks I will set out (how) to take our economy through this period of uncertainty, to get the economy growing strongly across all parts, to deal with Britain's long-standing productivity problem, to create more well-paid jobs, to negotiate the best terms for Britain's departure from the EU and to forge a new role for ourselves in the world.

– Margaret Thatcher

Found on Reuters 8 years ago

The Community gives us peace and security in a free society, a peace and security denied to the past two generations.

– Margaret Thatcher

Found on Reuters 8 years ago

I still want to play in it, maybe when I absolutely think I have no chance of playing in it my view might change but I doubt it because it just doesn't interest me.

– Margaret Thatcher

Found on Reuters 9 years ago

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