"I have a reputation for being obstinate. I don't think I am. I think I'm very firm."

"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 British people want to be free to make their own choices, to take their own risks, and to reap their own rewards."

"I am not concerned with the popularity of my policies, but with their rightness."

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