Thatcher Quotes
84 Thatcher quotes by 75 unique authors
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When New Labour came to power, we got a Right-wing Conservative government. I came to realise that voting Labour wasn't in Scotland's interests any more.…
— Jimmy Reid
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I only met Margaret Thatcher twice. The thing that I thought about meeting her was how extraordinarily intelligent she was. You really had to be…
— Salman Rushdie
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If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and…
— Malcolm Turnbull
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Margaret Thatcher made tough decisions. She put people out of work and she stood up to labor unions and she did a lot of things…
— Harvey Weinstein
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I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this…
— Thom Yorke
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What's your name?" "Becky Thatcher. What's yours? Oh, I know. It's Thomas Sawyer." "That's the name they lick me by. I'm Tom when I'm good.…
— Mark Twain
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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…
— Tony Benn
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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
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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
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Margaret Thatcher was very good for the arts in so far as it gave people a real focus for something to be against.
— Martin Parr
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Two famous happy warriors - Reagan and his political soulmate, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher - knew they were fighting their own ideological and external…
— Monica Crowley
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I have an ambivalent relationship with Margaret Thatcher. She came to power in May 1979 - a month before my 11th birthday. I was far…
— Sara Sheridan
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I admired Margaret Thatcher - while abhorring much of what she offered - because she was so clearly a leader of huge substance. Blair was…
— Martin Jacques
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I think my parents knew before I did that I was going to be an actress, because I was doing impressions of Margaret Thatcher at…
— Michelle Dockery
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By and large, the artistic establishment disapproved of Margaret Thatcher.
— Craig Brown
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Just as the England football manager starts with bells and flags and balloons and ends up reviled, so do prime ministers. Tony Blair - is…
— Terry Wogan
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It is good to see women doctors and lawyers and executives. I can visualize a woman president. If I were British, I would have supported…
— Jim Webb
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The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War.
— Douglas Hurd
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Among other things they picked out a detail that Charles had been offered the Governorship of Hong Kong in its dying days by Thatcher in…
— Anthony Holden
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Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he…
— Anthony Holden
Who Wrote These Thatcher Quotes
75 authors contributed a total of 84 Thatcher Quotes, led by these top contributors: