Margaret Thatcher Quotes
The trouble with you John, is that your spine does not reach your brain.
Margaret Thatcher, 1925-2013, British Prime Minister (Conservative), Insult of Conservative backbencher John Whittingdale
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Harding was not the brightest bulb on the political scene but was a very affable and personable man.
Referring to Sir Stafford Cripps, Chancellor of the Exchequer:
Even though a Muslim and one of the senior members of Jinnah's Muslim League, he thought that Jinnah and British Prime Minister Clement Attlee were delusional about being able to have a Muslim nation encompassing the Punjab. He was right, and hundreds of thousands died in Sikh-Muslim attacks and then Hindu-Muslim conflict in the Punjab. Khizar left politics and would not take any post in Pakistan after the partition of the Punjab and the slaughter that followed.
Some scholars believe that it was Henry Cabot Lodge to whom he made this remark.
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, DStJ, PC, FRS, HonFRSC was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold that office. A Soviet journalist dubbed her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. As prime minister, she implemented policies that became known as Thatcherism.
