Thatcher Quotes

“We are all Thatcherites now”

— Peter Mandelson

Thatcherism has become bigger than she ever was.

— Jonathan Coe

Thatcher was the best politician I have ever witnessed.

— Kenneth Clarke

“that's like Herod calling Thatcher a bit insensitive”

— David Mitchell

David Cameron is no Margaret Thatcher.

— Sanjaya Baru

Thatcher was the motivation for my entire political career. I hated everything she stood for.

— Nicola Sturgeon

Margaret Thatcher was as viscerally hated at home as she was warmly respected abroad.

— A. A. Gill

No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher.

— Anonymous

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

— Cherie Lunghi

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

— Harold Wilson

Margaret Thatcher was Britain's most controversial modern politician.

— Kwasi Kwarteng

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

— John Major

I cherish the accomplishments of Margaret Thatcher and will always count her as one of my role models.

— Sarah Palin

I certainly wasn't a fan of Thatcher's politics. People liked to label us as children of Thatcher. What nonsense. The real children…

— Gary Kemp

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

— Kate Clinton

I think my parents knew before I did that I was going to be an actress, because I was doing impressions of…

— Michelle Dockery

I think it's essential for comic writers to have a hate figure, a despot, a regime to react against, and I think…

— Sue Townsend

[Margaret Thatcher] was always talking about what the prudent housewife should do and what the prudent housewife knew.

— Hilary Mantel

Her iron will won international respect. Her unabashed femininity gained women's. Margaret Thatcher was a lady's lady.

— Louise Burfitt-Dons

[Margaret Thatcher] assumed somehow that this would get the woman voter and all those juvenile male voters who wanted a well-regulated household…

— Hilary Mantel

Politically, I thought [Margaret Thatcher] stank. I think she had a real fight on her hands to get where she got, but…

— Andrea Riseborough

When I started knocking on Highland doors in May 1983, two things struck me more than any other. First was the sheer…

— Charles Kennedy

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

— Phyllida Lloyd

A conveyor belt of Think Tank pundits and allied operatives poured into the TV studios, and together they built a fortress around…

— Adam Curtis

She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret is that…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Britain's done a lot of changing in the past 50 years. The decline of manufacturing and heavy industry under Margaret Thatcher ripped…

— Ash Sarkar

[Margaret Thatcher] said there was no thing such as society. This is what I find so interesting psychologically. Where did she come…

— Hilary Mantel

In the period before the arrival of Mrs. Thatcher, politics had been in such low esteem. Everything was so hedged, so mealy-mouthed.…

— Tom Stoppard

In London - and forget those extra public pressures on politicians - the lovely old Sloane world of manor houses simply hasn't…

— Peter York

“One simple answer is that there has been a massive rise in the incidence of sanctimony and smugness among the successful that…

— Brian Barry

“This is what you get when you found a political system on the family values of Henry VIII. At a point in…

— Christopher Hitchens

Media hosts just talk about Golda Meir and Margaret Thatcher and again miss the point. I was talking about AMERICAN culture, ladies…

— Rush Limbaugh

“Thatcher is remembered as The Iron Lady only because she possessed completely negative traits such as persistent stubbornness and a determined refusal…

— Morrisey

Margaret Thatcher - this great lady has not only served her country well, she has served the free world well.

— Ronald Reagan

[Margaret] Thatcher could fake her class background, but she couldn't fake the quality of her mind.

— Hilary Mantel

Margaret Thatcher was a pioneer, willingly or unwillingly, for the role of women in politics,

— Meryl Streep

[Margaret Thatcher] was the invisible hand behind it. Without that, there'd be no Trainspotting and no Filth.

— Irvine Welsh

I hated what Margaret Thatcher had done. How she'd taken jobs. I hated her divide and rule politics.

— Liz Kendall

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

— Charles Moore

The women's movement in England was totally against Margaret Thatcher.

— Gloria Steinem