Margaret Thatcher Want Quotations

If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.

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 can cope with nine of them, so they ought to be able to stand one of me. They could end the tiresomeness and stubbornness by giving me what I want.

A leader is someone who knows what they want to achieve and can communicate that.

To those waiting with bated breath for that favorite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only this to say, ‘You turn if you want; the lady’s not for turning.

I want a capital-earning democracy. Every man and woman a capitalist. Housing is the start. If you're a man or woman of property, you've got something. So every man a capitalist, and every man a man of property.

The Government wants a peaceful settlement. But we totally reject a peaceful sell-out.

I do not understand the unilateralists. If they hated nuclear weapons as much as I do they would want them down in the world as a whole. I am the true disarmer, I keep peace and freedom and justice with it.

I want to get totally rid of class distinction. As someone put it one of the papers this morning: Marks and Spencer have triumphed over Karl Marx and Engels.

If you want to get something said in the politics tell a man. If you want to get something done in the politics tell a woman

It took us a long time to get rid of the effects of the French Revolution 200 years ago. We don't want another one.

I want my money back!

I don't want to fight any wars; if you can get them off before we get there, you do it, but off they go.

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