If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything, wouldn't you, at any time? And you would achieve nothing!
Interview for Press Association (1989)
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Margaret Thatcher quotes
1925-2013 ยท Presidents and world leaders
First female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, serving from 1979 to 1990.
4 quotes, 4 traced to where Thatcher said or wrote them.
In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.
Speech to the National Union of Townswomen's Guilds (1965)
You turn if you want to. The lady's not for turning.
Speech to the Conservative Party Conference (1980)
This didn't come about because of consensus. It happened because we said: this we believe, this we will do. It's called leadership.
Speech to the Conservative Central Council (1986)