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.

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

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.

I want my money back!

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.