Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

Hey Chill, have a mental margarita.

Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course women learn it. We're not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man's world, so it talks a man's language.

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

Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.

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.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

I don't mind how much my ministers talk -- as long as they do what I say.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

The cocks may crow, but it's the hen that lays the egg.

Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

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

Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species -- it is the tigress and lioness in you -- which tends to defend when attacked.

One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, ''Well, I'll have a go, too.''

I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look.

I just owe almost everything to my father and 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 pays to know the enemy -- not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

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

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

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.

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages nor ivied ruins; no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor little Norman churches; no great Universities nor public schools -- no Oxford, nor Eton, nor Harrow; no literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures, no political society, no sporting class -- no Epsom nor Ascot! Some such list as that might be drawn up of the absent things in American life.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he only had good intentions. He had money as well.

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

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.

If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for the forty-eight.

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

This lady is not for turning.

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

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

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

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

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

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

You may have to fight the battle more than once to win the war.

Cause your not quite evil enough. Your semi-evil, your quasi-evil, your the margarine of evil, your the diet coke of evil, just one calorie, not "evil" enough.

When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

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

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it.