Australia Quote by Bob Hawke

Remember how Margaret Thatcher came to believe that abroad was more important than at home? Didn't do her much good.

— Simon Hoggart

It was a remarkable relationship. Margaret [Thatcher] and I had a love/hate relationship. She was always defending the South African regime and we had…

— Bob Hawke

I am not as cross about Thatcher now as I was in the '80s. Begrudgingly, I can see that some of her policies helped…

— Martin Parr

Anything I could have done that was legal to get Margaret Thatcher's government out I was prepared to do. I could not believe what…

— Glenda Jackson

I think Mrs Thatcher did more damage to democracy, equality, internationalism, civil liberties, freedom in this country than any other Prime Minister this century.…

— Tony Benn

Any criticism of Thatcher throws a dangerously absurd light on the entire machinery of British politics. Thatcher's name must be protected, not because of…

— Anonymous

I was out of the U.K. as a care-free, fun-loving student for much of Mrs. Thatcher's time in Downing Street, and as I didn't…

— Stephen Hough

Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where…

— Anthony Holden

Thatcher was prepared to destroy the world rather than give in on something she believed in.

— Ken Livingstone

Thatcher projected power in what she said and did.

— Cathy Newman

[Margaret Thatcher] aroused such strong loathing in so many people. That's the fact that interests me.

— Hilary Mantel

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

— Emmett Tyrrell