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You can’t tell me (as Rush also says) that Lady Thatcher would call Sarah Palin “nutty.”

Some Margaret Thatcher quotes:

• We want a society where people are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. This is what we mean by a moral society; not a society where the state is responsible for everything, and no one is responsible for the state.

• Economics are the method; the object is to change the soul.

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

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

• 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.

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

• The woman’s mission is not to enhance the masculine spirit, but to express the feminine; hers is not to preserve a man-made world, but to create a human world by the infusion of the feminine element into all of its activities.

• I owe nothing to Women’s Lib.

• The battle for women’s rights has been largely won.

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

• The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.

• There is no such thing as Society. There are individual men and women, and there are families.

• As God once said, and I think rightly...

• If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

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

• 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.

• If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn’t swim.

• I’m extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.

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

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

• 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.

• U-turn if you want to. The lady’s not for turning.

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

• 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.

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

• And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark divisive clouds of Marxist socialism.

AND SHE WAS JUST WARMING UP!