Along Quote by Tom Stoppard

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

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

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

— Javier Milei

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

— Bob Hawke

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

— Hilary Mantel

From the start of her leadership of the Conservative party in February 1975, Thatcher's style seemed shrill and uncompromising, and she became an easy…

— Kwasi Kwarteng

Watching the Commons tribute to Margaret Thatcher was like being suffocated inside a gigantic sticky toffee pudding, but one with nasty bogeys planted inside.…

— Simon Hoggart

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

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

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

My mum loved Margaret Thatcher and it was always this image of this amazing powerful woman who refused to be messed around - that…

— Heidi Allen

My entire life, socially, was all around the Maggie era. That was the great challenge as a Sex Pistol was how to deal with…

— John Lydon