Mrs Thatcher Quotes

• I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

  Tony Blair

  Business, Believe, Emphasis

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• So all the system was running down and collapsing. Mrs. Thatcher became the leader of the Conservative Party in February 1975, and she clearly wanted to strike out and do something different.

  Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking

  Running, Party, Leader

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• Paddy Ashdown is the only party leader who's a trained killer. Although, to be fair, Mrs Thatcher was self taught.

  Charles Kennedy

  Party, Self, Leader

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• In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government.

  Alan Green

  Government, Giving, Enemy

  "An Ecumenical Chatter: When Rev Robert Hood Met Fr Alan Green". Interview with Luke Turner, thequietus.com. June 6, 2016.

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• We have a number of very powerful women in the world now - Mrs. [Angela] Merkel, who the Germans call Mutti. What did we call Mrs. [Margaret] Thatcher? When she was minister of education, she stopped the children's free school milk. This may sound quaint, but after the war we were such a malnourished nation that part of the founding of the welfare state were public health initiatives. Every little schoolchild got milk. Mrs. Thatcher stopped it. They called her "Maggie Thatcher, milk snatcher."

  Hilary Mantel

  Powerful, Children, War

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• The state owned monopolies are among the greatest millstones round the neck of the economy. Liberals must stress at all times the virtues of the market, not only for efficiency but to enable the widest possible choice. Much of what Mrs Thatcher and Sir Keith Joseph say and do is in the mainstream of liberal philosophy.

  Jo Grimond

  Stress, Philosophy, Choices

  "The Future of Liberalism: The Inaugural Eighty Club Lecture". Book by Jo Grimond, 1980.

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• When women get great roles in life, they start to get great roles in films and TV. Look at Janet Reno, Madeleine Albright, and Mrs. Thatcher. Because those images are coming at us in life, they are reflected in acting.

  Helen Mirren

  Acting, Roles, Looks

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• Mrs Thatcher was not lightly bullied.

  Michael Heseltine

  Bullied

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• It is quite clear to me that the Tory Party will get rid of Mrs Thatcher in about 3 years time.

  Harold Wilson

  Party, Years, Predictions

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• Mrs Thatcher requires devotion as well as obedience.

  Julian Critchley

  Devotion, Obedience, Wells

  Julian Critchley (1987). “Heseltine”, A. Deutsch

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• Mrs Thatcher tells us she has given the French President a piece of her mind... not a gift I would receive with alacrity.

  Denis Healey

  Mind, President, Pieces

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• I think Mrs Thatcher did more damage to democracy, equality, internationalism, civil liberties, freedom in this country than any other Prime Minister this century. When the euphoria surrounding her departure subsides you will find that in a year or two's time there will not be a Tory who admits ever supporting her. People in the street will say, thank God she's gone

  Tony Benn

  Country, Thinking, Years

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• Mrs. Thatcher responded to our liberation of Grenada with the sounds of a somewhat hypersensitive Neville Chamberlain.

  Emmett Tyrrell

  Peace, War, Sound

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• I grew up in a very political household. My mum used to shout at the television. At Mrs. Thatcher.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Political, Television, Grew Up

  "I've an overactive brain". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2008.

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• Can you suggest any suitable aspersions to spread abroad about Mrs. Thatcher? It is idle to suggest she has unnatural relations with Mrs. Barbara Castle; what is needed is something socially lower: that she eats asparagus with knife and fork, or serves instant mash potatoes.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Knives, Gossip, Potatoes

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

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• She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret is that she does not take seriously the intellectual decline. Having given up the Empire and the mass production of industrial goods, Britain's future lay in its scientific and artistic pre-eminence. Mrs Thatcher will be long remembered for the damage she has done.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Regret, Science, Reflection

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• In London - and forget those extra public pressures on politicians - the lovely old Sloane world of manor houses simply hasn't cut it since Big Bang in 1986, the point at which Mrs. Thatcher really started to achieve her ambition to make this country more like America - its ambition, economy, it's very tangible measures of success.

  Peter York

  Country, Ambition, Cutting

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• Everyone wants to be immortal. Few are. Margaret Thatcher is. Why? Because her values are timeless, eternal. Tap anyone on the shoulder anywhere in the world, and ask what Mrs Thatcher believed in, and they will tell you. They can give a clear answer to what she 'stood for.

  Maurice Saatchi

  Giving, Answers, World

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• Like Marxism, Thatcherism is, in fact, riddled with contradictions. Mrs. Thatcher, on the other hand, is free of doubt; she is the label on the can of worms.

  Julian Critchley

  Hands, Political, Doubt

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• Much of America is now in need of an equivalent of Mrs. Thatcher's privatization program in 1980s Britain, or post-Soviet Eastern Europe's economic liberalization in the early Nineties. It's hard to close down government bodies, but it should be possible to sell them off. And a side benefit to outsourcing the Bureau of Government Agencies and the Agency of Government Bureaus is that you'd also be privatizing public-sector unions, which are the biggest and most direct assault on freedom, civic integrity, and fiscal solvency.

  Mark Steyn

  Integrity, Agency, Government

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• [On being asked how many Mrs. Thatchers there were:] Oh, three at least. There is the intellectual one, the intuitive one and the one at home.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Home, Intellectual, Three

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