Margaret Thatcher Quotes

Thatcher was the best politician I have ever witnessed.

Margaret Thatcher was Britain's most controversial modern politician.

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

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

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.

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.

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

You turn if you want to. The Lady's not for turning.

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.'

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

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

Margaret Thatcher always felt like an outsider in her party.

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.

Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.

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 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.

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.

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

David Cameron is no Margaret Thatcher.

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

I was out of the U.K. as a care-free, fun-loving student for much of Mrs. Thatcher's time in Downing Street, and as I didn't own a television in New York, never read the newspapers, and am old enough to have lived before the Internet, she is a shadowy figure in my memory.

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.

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.

She [Theresa May] is the right choice to lead Britain in a challenging period and will make a truly outstanding prime minister.