Margaret Thatcher Quotes About Politics
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Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them.
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There are no personal sympathies in politics.
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There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.
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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.
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If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.
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I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look.
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The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.
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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.
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First you win the argument, then you win the vote.
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We want a society in which we are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. That is what we mean by a moral society - not a society in which the State is responsible for everything, and no one is responsible for the State.
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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
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We are not in politics to ignore peoples' worries, we are in politics to deal with them.
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One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
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I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.
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I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
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Yet the basic fact remains: every regulation represents a restriction of liberty, every regulation has a cost. That is why, like marriage (in the Prayer Book's words), regulation should not "be enterprised, nor taken in hand, unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly"
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We very much hope that as we get growth that we can reduce the burden of taxation, that we can reduce income tax and increase the amount of genuine free enterprise and business enterprise... This is going... toward the restoration of the personal responsibility, the independence, with every man a property owner, every man a capitalist.
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Political success is a good deal pleasanter than political failure, but it too brings its problems.
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There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
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When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment, it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
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Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
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Margaret Thatcher
- Born: October 13, 1925
- Died: April 8, 2013
- Occupation: Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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