What Britain needs is an iron lady.

I would not wish to be Prime Minister, dear.

Reagan did not suffer from the dismal plague of doubts which has assailed so many politicians in our times and which has rendered them incapable of clear decisions.

Consensus is the negation of leadership.

Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.

I might have preferred iron -- but bronze will do. It won't rust. This time I hope, the head will stay on.

This business of the working class is on its way out I think. After all, aren't I working class? I work jolly hard, I can tell you.

You don't win by just being against things, you only win by being for things and making your message perfectly clear.

If we are safe today, it is because America has stood with us. If we are to remain safe tomorrow, it will be because America remains powerful and self-confident. When, therefore, the Americans face difficulties, we need to say to them more clearly: We are with you.

The patronage state is an arrogant state. It assumes it can spend your money better than you do. Yet it expects you to work for it in the first place.

The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

Never believe that technology alone will allow America to prevail as a superpower.

We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at a European level with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels.

I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

Bribing regimes to comply with requirements which they should have acknowledged in the first place is not a process that appeals to me.

There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new -- and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.

I'm also very much aware that it is you who brought democracy to Chile, you set up a constitution suitable for democracy, you put it into effect, elections were held, and then, in accordance with the result, you stepped down.

It is one of the great weaknesses of reasonable men and women that they imagine that projects which fly in the face of commonsense are not serious or being seriously undertaken.

I wasn't lucky, I deserved it.