Country Quote by Hilary Mantel

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

— Hilary Mantel

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

— Hilary Mantel

I believe this was [Margaret Thatcher] estimate of the voter: "These people are so stupid that they will vote for me because they think…

— Hilary Mantel

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

— Hilary Mantel

Anyone who supposed that when Margaret Thatcher left Number Ten she was going to take a Trappist vow did not know that formidable politician.

— Chris Patten

I am sure that all politicians seek the home connection with the voter. But [Margaret Thatcher] carried it to extremes.

— Hilary Mantel

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

— Hilary Mantel

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

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

— Simon Hoggart

If Margaret Thatcher were running for president today we wouldn't have focus groups and we wouldn't have one day focusing on 'change' and the…

— Rush Limbaugh

I hate to say it because I voted against everything Thatcher did, but she had principles she believed in.

— Dennis Skinner

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

— John Major