1980s Quote by Clive Lewis

It is Margaret Thatcher's fault...Inspired by busy little demons, she slashed and burnt her way through the old order. Sentiment was given short shrift,…

— Stephen Bayley

So all the system was running down and collapsing. Mrs. Thatcher became the leader of the Conservative Party in February 1975, and she clearly…

— Anonymous

By and large, the artistic establishment disapproved of Margaret Thatcher.

— Craig Brown

Thatcher had broken the miners' union, all but crushed the Labour Party, dramatically cut back the welfare state, even flirted with a poll tax.…

— Jon Weisman

Just as strong Labour supporters in the 1980s could not come to terms with the fact that most people did not hate Mrs Thatcher,…

— Damian Green

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

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

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

While every effort is being undertaken to make the memory of the Thatcher government disappear, Thatcherism is still working its way through the system.

— Stuart Hall

As Margaret Thatcher came up in the world, so the Conservative Party came down.

— Julian Critchley

Under Ronald Reagan in the United States and Margaret Thatcher in the U.K., there was a rewriting of the basic rules of capitalism. These…

— Joseph Stiglitz

Mrs. Thatcher actually won her big majorities in the Eighties with a smaller vote share than she did in 1979. This happened because the…

— Gavin Williamson