Simon Hoggart Quotes

I certainly wasn't a fan of Thatcher's politics. People liked to label us as children of Thatcher. What nonsense. The real children of Thatcher came in the 1990s, and had no interest in politics. The Oasis, Britpop scene.

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.'

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.

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

Thatcher was the best politician I have ever witnessed.

Margaret Thatcher was Britain's most controversial modern politician.

If you're dealing with a powerful leader, you're inevitably going to have a dialogue with her political past. It was always my intention to interrogate Thatcher's political life.

My paternal grandma was a raving Thatcherite, one who had a xenophobic turn of phrase for most proceedings.

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.

The sorrow of the IRA Brighton bombing is that Thatcher escaped unscathed.

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

Margaret Thatcher was a pioneer, willingly or unwillingly, for the role of women in politics.

I cherish the accomplishments of Margaret Thatcher and will always count her as one of my role models.

It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement.

The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.

Since we're each unique, if we've shared many experiences, then it probably has something to do with power or politics, and if we unify and act together, then we can make a change. Revolutions that last don't happen from the top down. They happen from the bottom up.

The NGO-ization of politics threatens to turn resistance into a well-mannered, reasonable, salaried, 9-to-5 job. With a few perks thrown in. Real resistance has real consequences. And no salary.

We have to craft new political realities, not only in places like India, Afghanistan, Kenya, Pakistan, but here at home as well. Another world is possible.

If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth

The desire for hope and change is easily understandable. In many ways it's even more dramatic in Europe.

Agitation is all about poetry, governance is all about prose.

We're no longer living in Tammany Hall America.

With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution.

The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl.

Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.