Thatcher Quotes

(On Margaret Thatcher`s 80th birthday) "She`s the Iron Lady and I want to be just like that when I grow up".

If there is a better singer in England than Craig David, then I am Margaret Thatcher.

I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.

What (Winston) Churchill did in wartime, Margaret Thatcher did in peacetime.

Among other things they picked out a detail that Charles had been offered the Governorship of Hong Kong in its dying days by Thatcher in return for shutting up about the inner cities. He quite rightly in my view led the paper on this story.

Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he did actually shut up in the end.

(Lurie said that I was naive to think that Margaret Thatcher and Indira Gandhi and Golda Meir meant that people would be comfortable with a woman leading the free world.) Do you think she would be taken seriously by Arab countries? ... When Bush`s voice cracked after 9/11, that was seen as a man showing his emotions. If a woman did that, it would be seen as weakness, as breaking under the pressure.

It may have modified, it may have changed slightly, but don`t let`s kid ourselves, Margaret Thatcher did things the rest of the world followed.

Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an immediate and formidable increase of economic strength to a Germany which was already the strongest economic partner in Europe.

Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe.

The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War.

For us she is not the iron lady. She is the kind, dear Mrs. Thatcher.

We don`t want a Mrs Thatcher-type figure hitting us with a handbag and telling us what to do.