Thatcher quotes

It will be Blair,Blair, Blair just as it wasThatcher,Thatcher, Thatcher.

-Tony (Anthony Neil Wedgwood) Benn
  Replying to a student's question on the supremacy of prime ministerial power.

   For the past few months, [Margaret Thatcher] has been charging around likesome bargain-basement Boadicea.

- Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey
  In the Observer,7 Nov.

I am persuaded now that I have a better prospect than MrsThatcher of leading the Conservatives to a fourth electoral victoryand preventing the ultimate calamity of a Labour government.

- Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine, Baron Heseltine
  On announcing his decision to stand for the leadership, Nov.

Thenannyseemedtobe extinct until1975, when, likethe coelacanth, shesuddenlyand unexpectedly reappeared in the shape of Margaret Thatcher.

- Simon David Hoggart
  In Vanity Fair,  Aug.

If Margaret Thatcher wins onThursday, I warn you not to be ordinary,I warnyou not to be young,I warnyou not to fall ill, I warn you not to get old.

- Neil Gordon Kinnock
  Speech one day before polling,  Jun.

I've met serial killers and professional assassins and nobody scared me as much as MrsT.

- Ken Livingstone
  On Margaret Thatcher. In The Times,7 Mar.

Margaret Thatcher is a brilliant tyrant surrounded by mediocrities.

-Stockton
  In Newsweek,12 Oct.

Ispeakof that most dangerous duoPresident Ray-Gun and the plutonium blonde, Margaret Thatcher.

- Arthur Scargill
  Quoted in Time, 3 Dec.

[Margaret Thatcher] has turned the British bulldog into a Reagan poodle.

- David Martin Scott Steel, Baron Steel
  In Time, 28 Apr.

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 perfect for me, I loathed everything she stood for.

- Sue Townsend
  In the Observer, 24 Mar.

Idon't seehow we cantalk with MrsThatcher† Iwill say to the lads,'Come on, get your snouts in the trough.'

- Sidney Weighell
  Speech, London,10 Apr.

Who is there in that lot one would want as a father, except perhaps MrsThatcher? That choice would be irregular but safe.

- Dame Rebecca formerly  Cecily Isabel Fairfield West
  Of British Prime Ministers.1900, introduction.