Julian Critchley Quotes

Margaret Thatcher effected profound change in the society and for that she became very unpopular.

Politically, I thought [Margaret Thatcher] stank. I think she had a real fight on her hands to get where she got, but I don't believe that her conviction was for the greater good.

I think it is going to take another fifty years for the report to be in. If I were to give a preliminary report, I would say that [Margaret Thatcher] wrecked this country.

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.

[Describing Margaret Thatcher:] She approaches the problems of our country with all the one-dimensional subtlety of a comic strip.

What Mrs. Thatcher did was to take a rather complacent and comfortable set of social institutions and arrangements, stick dynamite under them, detonate them, and not really give a damn about the casualties.

Scotland never voted for Margaret Thatcher.

Margaret Thatcher always felt like an outsider in her party.

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.

What is it we are hating? It goes beyond politics. I suppose that my fascination with [Margaret Thatcher] is not just with her political record but with her as a phenomenon.

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

I admired Margaret Thatcher - while abhorring much of what she offered - because she was so clearly a leader of huge substance. Blair was the dismal opposite.

Margaret Thatcher had more impact on the world than any woman ruler since Catherine the Great of Russia. Not only did she turn around - decisively - the British economy in the 1980s, she also saw her methods copied in more than 50 countries.

I have an ambivalent relationship with Margaret Thatcher. She came to power in May 1979 - a month before my 11th birthday. I was far too young to have developed a great deal of political awareness. I remember it, though - my mother excited at the dinner table because Britain had its first female prime minister.

Thatcher was the motivation for my entire political career. I hated everything she stood for.

In the period before the arrival of Mrs. Thatcher, politics had been in such low esteem. Everything was so hedged, so mealy-mouthed. Then along came this woman who seemed to have no manners at all and said exactly what she thought. Everyone's eyes were popping and their jaws were dropping, and I really enjoyed that.

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

I want to be America's Margaret Thatcher. I will be the next Iron Lady.

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

Margaret Thatcher made tough decisions. She put people out of work and she stood up to labor unions and she did a lot of things that I did not like.

[Referring to British Prime Minister Anthony Eden: He is not only a bore but he bores for England.

Churchill is the best man the British have even if he is drunk half the time.

The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled members with their varied intelligence and then prays for the country.

The Portuguese are, as you say, a most inconceivable set of selfish politicians

I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived.