Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS, FRICwas a British stateswoman and politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and the 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 have held the office. A Soviet journalist dubbed her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. As...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth13 October 1925
CityGrantham, England
I'm back... and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign 'The Mummy Returns'.
Remember, George, this is no time to go wobbly.
I owe nothing to Women's Lib.
We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.
The battle for women's rights has been largely won.
Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.
And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark divisive clouds of Marxist socialism.
Home is where you come to when you've got nothing better to do.
Whether at home or abroad, the task of statesman is to work with human nature warts and all, and to draw on instincts and even prejudices that can be turned to good purpose. It is never to try to recreate Mankind in a new image.
Bribing regimes to comply with requirements which they should have acknowledged in the first place is not a process that appeals to me.
As the former dissident Vladimir Bukovsky one remarked -- referring to the Russian proverb to the effect that you cannot make an omlette without breaking eggs -- he had seen plenty of broken eggs, but had never tasted any omlette.
To be free is better than to be unfree – always. Any politician who suggests the opposite should be treated as suspect.
Economics are the method; the object is to change the soul.
Never in the history of human credit has so much been owed.