Margaret Thatcher

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

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'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.

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

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.

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.

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

It's a funny old world.