Hilary Mantel Quotes

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.

Thatcher was the best politician I have ever witnessed.

Margaret Thatcher was Britain's most controversial modern politician.

Donald Trump has to be respected.

Anyone who supposed that when Margaret Thatcher left Number Ten she was going to take a Trappist vow did not know that formidable politician.

Donald Rumsfeld. Love him or hate him, you've gotta admit: a lot of people hate him.

I think psychologically [Margaret Thatcher] is really worth studying. I am reading Charles Moore's biography of her, and he has gotten us right there with a woman who lived the unexamined life, and lived it deliberately, and who has contempt for history, even her own.

I respected [Margaret Thatcher] enormously. She had great integrity in that respect.

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

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

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.

Palin may be a polarizing figure, but she's more than just a 'political personality.'

Margaret Thatcher always felt like an outsider in her party.

I can't think of any male politician who magnetizes love and hate - mainly hate - the way [Margaret Thatcher] did.

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.

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

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] aroused such strong loathing in so many people. That's the fact that interests me.

Sarah Palin's a quitter.

In the end, Ted Kennedy was a politician, plain and simple. Yet he embodied how politics and public service can be successfully intertwined. You can't be a good public servant without being a good politician. Kennedy was both.

Tony Blair is not a villain, but he's played the part very well.

The last time I saw Ted Kennedy was a generation after my first meeting, at the Senate subway below the Capitol on Obama's Inauguration Day. He was his usual gregarious and gracious self - with beaming smile and booming voice wishing my husband and me good luck with our pregnancy and expressing his excitement about the new president.

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.