Decline Quote by Richard A. Falk

Margaret Thatcher in Britain and soon after Ronald Reagan in the United States - both hard-line advocates of market fundamentalism - announced that there…

— Henry Giroux

Neoliberalism became the leading economic ideology in the U.S. and in the U.K. during Ronald Reagan's and Margaret Thatcher's mandates. In this way, the…

— Jens Martin Skibsted

Britain's done a lot of changing in the past 50 years. The decline of manufacturing and heavy industry under Margaret Thatcher ripped the economic…

— Ash Sarkar

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

“Thirty years ago [written 2009], over-regulation, over-taxation, mis-regulation, statism, state corporatism, and economic folly, cosiness and regulatory capture, and a crescent ideological enemy without,…

— G.M.W. Wemyss

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

— Julian Critchley

The main purpose of the Thatcher government was to sort out Britain's failing economy.

— Nick Boles

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

“The right of the labour movement, to be honest, has no ideas of any compelling quality, except the instinct for short-term political survival. It…

— Stuart Hall

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

I am sure future historians will say the biggest and most astonishing change in politics has been the embracing of all the tenets of…

— Robert Harris

Margaret Thatcher was a 20th century visionary who understood the power of individual freedom versus the tyranny of government collectivism. She was a loyal…

— Anonymous