Economic progress Quote by Stephen Bayley

This is the first generation to grow up on Thatcher - it's a different ethos. It's money minded, and it's the cult of yourself.…

— Jane Campion

Margaret Thatcher drove us like there was no tomorrow. But I think there is a genuine feeling now that this macho, workaholic, earn lots…

— Edwina Currie

Margaret Thatcher made tough decisions. She put people out of work and she stood up to labor unions and she did a lot of…

— Harvey Weinstein

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

In the 1980s, Thatcher hacked away at our trade unions and abolished the Greater London Council.

— Clive Lewis

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

“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

She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret is that she does…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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

“Just because you disagreed with the Poll Tax and detested Margaret Thatcher—" "Detest is a little inappropriate," Parlabane said. "Maybe closer to say I…

— Christopher Brookmyre

“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

“A letter published in the Times of London on March 30, 1981, signed by 364 prominent economists, predicted that Margaret Thatcher’s stringent fiscal policies…

— Danielle DiMartino Booth