Margaret Thatcher

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

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

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for the forty-eight.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

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

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

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.