Break Quote by Meryl Streep

I have heard lots of speeches by Margaret Thatcher. She was brilliant.

— Javier Milei

The danger with Margret Thatcher is that when she speaks without thinking she says what she thinks.

— Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley

If you're dealing with a powerful leader, you're inevitably going to have a dialogue with her political past. It was always my intention to…

— Abi Morgan

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

Thatcher projected power in what she said and did.

— Cathy Newman

[Margaret Thatcher] was the invisible hand behind it. Without that, there'd be no Trainspotting and no Filth.

— Irvine Welsh

To a Brit of my generation, one of the most objectionable things about [Margaret] Thatcher is her falsity. She is a total construct. For…

— Hilary Mantel

“I never swallowed in its entirety the free-market rhetoric of the Thatcherites. But I deeply sympathized with Thatcher’s motives. She wanted the electorate to…

— Roger Scruton

She ( Margaret Thatcher )is democratic enough to talk down to anyone

— Austin Mitchell

I did one of the first interviews with Mrs Thatcher. I think, from memory, she came across then as a sort of wishy-washy European.

— Angela Rippon

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

— 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