Abi Morgan Quotes

Thatcher was the best politician I have ever witnessed.

Margaret Thatcher was Britain's most controversial modern politician.

It is quite clear that history will record that Margaret Thatcher was the greatest Prime Minister this country has had since Churchill.

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

David Cameron is no Margaret Thatcher.

Margaret Thatcher always felt like an outsider in her party.

Watching the Commons tribute to Margaret Thatcher was like being suffocated inside a gigantic sticky toffee pudding, but one with nasty bogeys planted inside. There was much of the 'Margaret Thatcher who was lucky enough to know me,' especially from her own side of the House.

I had to live and breathe Margaret Thatcher for a few months. I totally engulfed myself in her life. I read her autobiography and a biography, 'The Grocer's Daughter.'

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

After Margaret Thatcher's funeral, I spoke at a tribute meeting organised by her supporters in a pub next to St Paul's.

Margaret Thatcher was as viscerally hated at home as she was warmly respected abroad.

I was Margaret Thatcher in the school election during the 1983 General Election.

Margaret Thatcher was a great leader for her nation at a pivotal and a perilous time. So, I find the comparison flattering, but that's up to others to say whether that comparison is justified.

I never was a great Thatcher fan, and it wasn't a sad day in my life when she resigned.

Spare me this sanctimony about politeness, please. There are millions of people in this country who hate the very word 'Thatcher' and 'Thatcherism,' which continues until this day.

No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher.

Mrs. Thatcher was a powerful figure at the time I was a student in London. And I admire her versatility and strength.

Never have I met a politician who was as certain her or she was absolutely right as Margret Thatcher.

I think Margaret Thatcher was a superstar in this country, and I think we all felt we needed a superstar to play her, somebody of huge intelligence, passion, and power and warmth.

Margaret Thatcher was a lady. I suppose she was a woman in a man's world, but that's about the only nice thing I have to say.

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. She took time to be concerned - she knew all about my children and wife Mila and so on.

To a Brit of my generation, one of the most objectionable things about [Margaret] Thatcher is her falsity. She is a total construct. For one thing, she had a made-over accent.

John Redwood is a young man but, let's face it, so was Margaret Thatcher in 1975.

Mrs Thatcher was not lightly bullied.

Margaret Thatcher was in my year, and our first-year college photograph shows us standing side by side in the back row. We were both grammar school girls on state scholarships.