One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers. (On Soviet and Allied missiles in Europe) Margaret Hilda Thatcher More Quotes by Margaret Hilda Thatcher More Quotes From Margaret Hilda Thatcher Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it. Margaret Hilda Thatcher If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage. Margaret Hilda Thatcher A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us. Margaret Hilda Thatcher What is success I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose. Margaret Hilda Thatcher 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 Hilda Thatcher Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. Margaret Hilda Thatcher Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. Margaret Hilda Thatcher I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near. Margaret Hilda Thatcher I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiqus, one with another across the years, and noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism in the reports which followed the summit meetings and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuing years. Margaret Hilda Thatcher 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 Hilda Thatcher 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. Margaret Hilda Thatcher I like Mr Gorbachev, we can do business together. Margaret Hilda Thatcher I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look. Margaret Hilda Thatcher If you go into what I call a bubble boom, every bubble bursts. Margaret Hilda Thatcher If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you. Margaret Hilda Thatcher If you want something said, ask a man if you want something done, ask a woman. Margaret Hilda Thatcher Platitudes Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true. Margaret Hilda Thatcher Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous you get knocked down by traffic from both sides. Margaret Hilda Thatcher To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside, where it functions best. Margaret Hilda Thatcher You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive. Margaret Hilda Thatcher
