Margaret Thatcher’s musings on politics

• Being prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd. 
• 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. 
• I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph. 
• Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus. 
• One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex. 
• Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. 
• Of course it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story. 
• There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty. 
• There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families. 
• This lady is not for turning. 
• To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches. 
• 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. 
• We were told our campaign wasn’t sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment. 
• You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive. 
• You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. 

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