If you just set out to be liked, you will be prepared to compromise on anything at anytime, and would achieve nothing.
Margaret ThatcherConsensus: “The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: ‘I stand for consensus?
Margaret ThatcherStichwörter: politics democracy definitions leadership
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
Margaret ThatcherThe problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
Margaret ThatcherStichwörter: government entitlement
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.
Margaret ThatcherStichwörter: humor wisdom inspirational politics slander
When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine
Margaret ThatcherChristmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.
Margaret ThatcherStichwörter: christmas
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Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money.
Margaret ThatcherLaw and order is a social service. Crime and the fear which the threat of crime induces can paralyse whole communities, keep lonely and vulnerable elderly people shut up in their homes, scar young lives and raise to cult status the swaggering violent bully who achieves predatory control over the streets. I suspect that there would be more support and less criticism than today's political leaders imagine for a large shift of resources from Social Security benefits to law and order - as long as rhetoric about getting tough on crime was matched by practice.
Margaret ThatcherAs Prime Minister between 1979 and 1990 I had the opportunity to put these convictions into effect in economic policy -
We intended policy in the 1980s to be directed towards fundamentally different goals from those of most of the post-war ear. We believed that since jobs (in a free society) did not depend on government but upon satisfying customers, there was no point in setting targets for 'full' employment. Instead, government should create the right framework of sound money, low taxes, light regulation and flexible markets (including labour markets) to allow prosperity and employment to grow.
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