Challenges Quote by John Lydon

In the period before the arrival of Mrs. Thatcher, politics had been in such low esteem. Everything was so hedged, so mealy-mouthed. Then along…

— Tom Stoppard

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

Thatcher was the motivation for my entire political career. I hated everything she stood for.

— Nicola Sturgeon

If you aspired and wanted to get on in life, as so many immigrants families did, Margaret Thatcher was your champion, your role model,…

— Alok Sharma

I respected [Margaret Thatcher] enormously. She had great integrity in that respect.

— Bob Hawke

Politically, I thought [Margaret Thatcher] stank. I think she had a real fight on her hands to get where she got, but I don't…

— Andrea Riseborough

I certainly wasn't a fan of Thatcher's politics. People liked to label us as children of Thatcher. What nonsense. The real children of Thatcher…

— Gary Kemp

I think it's essential for comic writers to have a hate figure, a despot, a regime to react against, and I think Thatcher was…

— Sue Townsend

Like all of us, there were many facets to Margaret Thatcher's personality. In private she was kind, thoughtful, charming. Very attentive to her interlocutors.…

— Brian Mulroney

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 never was a great Thatcher fan, and it wasn't a sad day in my life when she resigned.

— Jim Broadbent

It was quite life-affirming, for me, that I felt hat kind of pity for [Margaret Thatcher], because I didn't think I ever would.

— Irvine Welsh