Margaret Thatcher Iron Quotations

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

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

Ladies and gentlemen, I stand before you tonight in my … chiffon evening gown, my face softly made up, my fair hair gently waved, the Iron Lady of the Western world. Me? A Cold War warrior? … Well, yes — if that is how they wish to interpret my defense of values of freedoms fundamental to our way of life.

While the Soviet Union has imposed its rule on its neighbours and drawn an iron curtain between east and west, we in Great Britain have given freedom and independence to more than forty-eight countries whose populations now number more than a thousand million - a quarter of the world's total.

You turn if you want to. The Lady's not for turning.

Defeat? I do not recognize the meaning of the word.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.