“I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.”

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

“If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn’t swim.”

“To be free is better than to be unfree – always. Any politician who suggests the opposite should be treated as suspect.”

“Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.”

“People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.”

“Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s when you’ve had everything to do, and you’ve done it.”

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

“I wasn’t lucky. I deserved it.”

“It used to be about trying to do something. Now it’s about trying to be someone.”

“I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.”

“For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other’s good intentions.”

“If you just set out to be liked, you will be prepared to compromise on anything at anytime, and would achieve nothing.”

“I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.”

“I love argument, I love debate. I don’t expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that’s not their job.”

“Being prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd.”

“What Britain needs is an iron lady.”

“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.”

“Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.”

“I don’t mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.”

“Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s a day you’ve had everything to do and you’ve done it.”

“You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.”

“It’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.”

“It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.”