Margaret Thatcher

"What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose."

"It's a funny old world."

"It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone."

"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."

"When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine"

"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left."

"In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman."

"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left."