I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.
No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.
I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.
If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.
If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
What Britain needs is an iron lady.
To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.
We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.
If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.
I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.
There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.
We Conservatives hate unemployment.
If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.
Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.
You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.
Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.
