Zitate und Sprüche von Margaret Thatcher

If my critics saw me walking on water, they would say it's because I can't swim.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

When Margaret Thatcher was leader, she and Michael Heseltine were hardly soulmates, but she would not have allowed personal rivalry to take the heat off the Labour Party, whose own deep internal divisions are buried in other news now, nor would she have countenanced any attempt to have a show trial.

Socialism and communism fall of their own weight because, as Margaret Thatcher said, you run out of other people's money. Because socialized medicine never falls of its own weight because you put people on lists, and they die waiting to get the treatment and care. So you don't go broke.

It is strange with how little notice, good, bad, or indifferent, a man may live and die in London.

If you're curious, London's an amazing place.

I've often thought a blind man could find his way through London simply by gauging the changes in innuendo: mild through Trafalgar Square, less veiled towards the river.

I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.

I don't miss London much. I find it crowded, vast and difficult to get around. Cabs are incredibly expensive.

You should never trust a woman who just had her heart broken. We tend to lie.

When a woman quits on a man, she either got enough of him or she didn't get enough from him.

It is hard to see taxing plastic bags as one of the great issues of our time that merits the foremost place in our finest statesmen's minds. It is an absurd little issue, a picayune proportion of household waste, and a pointless inconvenience in people's lives.

Lobbying has become a term of reproach, as if it were improper to push for a particular belief. This has happened because of paid lobbyists whose opinions are for hire and the fear that decision-makers, whether politicians or officials, are susceptible to their charms and wiles. This has tarred entirely proper lobbying with the same brush.

We see people in the Middle East begin to have dreams of new Ottoman Empire where everyone will be subjected to some of what we've seen happen in those countries where we helped bring about an Arab Spring that's turned into a Winter Nightmare.

So the good news is, if you're unemployed and you go to apply for a job and you're not hired for that job, see a lawyer - you may be able to file for a claim because you were discriminated against because you were unemployed.

You don't build a great castle just all at once.

Winning isn't getting ahead of others, it is getting ahead of yourself.

Fighting's for grownups, and that's only if you got no other choice.

Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.

Remember, with great power. comes great responsibility!

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don’t care for human beings.

We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.