"I don't mind how much my Ministers..." - Quote by Margaret Thatcher
I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.
More by Margaret Thatcher
“I don't want to fight any wars; if you can get them off before we get there, you do it, but off they go.”
“What? What am I 'bound to be feeling?' People don’t think anymore. They feel. 'How are you feeling? No, I don’t feel comfortable. I’m sorry, we as a group we’re feeling….' One of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas. Thoughts and ideas. That interests me. Ask me what I’m thinking.”
“The Russians are bent on world dominance, and they are rapidly acquiring the means to become the most powerful imperial nation the world has seen. The men in the Soviet Politburo do not have to worry about the ebb and flow of public opinion. They put guns before butter, while we put just about everything before guns.”
More on Leadership
“It looks to me like any man that wants to be President in times like these lacks something.”
“Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.”
“Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.”
More on Authority
“We were not born to sue, but to command.”
“Whoever can discern truth has received his commission from a higher source than the chiefest justice in the world who can discernonly law. He finds himself constituted judge of the judge. Strange that it should be necessary to state such simple truths!”
“The space you occupy and the authority you exercise may be measured with mathematical exactness by the service you render.”