We are all Thatcherites now

“I never swallowed in its entirety the free-market rhetoric of the Thatcherites. But I deeply sympathized with Thatcher’s motives. She wanted the electorate to…

— Roger Scruton

She ( Margaret Thatcher )is democratic enough to talk down to anyone

— Austin Mitchell

Margaret Thatcher had more impact on the world than any woman ruler since Catherine the Great of Russia. Not only did she turn around…

— Paul Johnson

I am not running as Son of Margaret Thatcher. I have my own priorities and my own programmes.

— John Major

I think psychologically [Margaret Thatcher] is really worth studying. I am reading Charles Moore's biography of her, and he has gotten us right there…

— Hilary Mantel

If there is a better singer in England than Craig David, then I am Margaret Thatcher.

— Elton John

They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have been women, you know, Sonia Gandhi for heaven's sakes…

— Kate Clinton

“This is what you get when you found a political system on the family values of Henry VIII. At a point in the not-too-remote…

— Christopher Hitchens

One of the most influential women of the 20th century? Well, that may be overdoing it. When one thinks of really influential women, my…

— William A. Rusher

[Margaret Thatcher] is a woman who, when she wrote her entry for "Who's Who," didn't include her mother. Now whether that was corrected in…

— Hilary Mantel

“And she also enjoyed a conversation on public questions which tended to take place in the parlour of the shop”

— Charles Moore

In a way, the debate about Margaret Thatcher in Britain has just gotten fossilized in this notion that she is either this she-devil who…

— Phyllida Lloyd

I grew up under Thatcher; the era of apartheid; the era of the poll tax; the era of riots. I remember Neil Kinnock was…

— David Lammy

The world is undoubtedly a safer, freer place because Thatcher - like Reagan - refused to back down when it came to defending freedom.

— Bob Barr

Thatcher was the best politician I have ever witnessed.

— Kenneth Clarke