Thatcher Quotes
84 quotes by 75 authors
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I want to be America's Margaret Thatcher. I will be the next Iron Lady.
— Michele Bachmann
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I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.
— Tony Blair
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But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and…
— George H. W. Bush
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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…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Margaret Thatcher was the first political leader in any major country to warn of the dangers of climate change
— Ed Miliband
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Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Margaret Thatcher was a pioneer, willingly or unwillingly, for the role of women in politics,
— Meryl Streep
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When England was a kingdom, we had a king. When we were an empire, we had an emperor. Now we're a country, and we have…
— Kenny Everett
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Going to bed with Gertrude Stein, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Susan Sontag, or Margaret Thatcher: There are some things one prefers neither to do nor to have…
— Edward Abbey
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Gandhi and Mandela and Churchill and JFK and Reagan and Thatcher and Sarkozy and Franklin and Washington set the tone to an incredible degree-their "personal…
— Tom Peters
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I had to live and breathe Margaret Thatcher for a few months. I totally engulfed myself in her life. I read her autobiography and a…
— Alexandra Roach
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It is not enough to call yourself a feminist because you are a strong woman. Thatcher was an enemy to feminism, as is Nadine Dorries.…
— Julie Bindel
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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…
— Julian Critchley
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Do you know what Margaret Thatcher did in her first Budget? Introduced VAT on yachts! It somewhat ruined my retirement
— Edward Heath
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For 3 million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could hand her over to…
— Frankie Boyle
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John Redwood is a young man but, let's face it, so was Margaret Thatcher in 1975.
— Edward Leigh
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The sorrow of the IRA Brighton bombing is that Thatcher escaped unscathed.
— Steven Morrissey
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Margaret Thatcher has shown that there is power and dignity to be won by defying the status quo and the majority rather than by adapting…
— Christopher Hitchens
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[Margaret] Thatcher had just become prime minister; there was talk about whether it was an advance to have a woman prime minister if it was…
— Caryl Churchill
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Revisionist historians are about to get their hands on the Thatcher years, shes probably going to be looked at again because she feels far enough…
— Jonathan Coe
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