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Mention 'Thatcher' in the UK and opinion will be clearly divided. However, one thing that is inarguable is that Margaret Thatcher was a formidable character: British stateswoman, Leader of the Conservative Party 1975-1990, Prime Minister 1979-1990, Britain's first female prime minister; the longest-serving prime minister of the 20th century; self-confessed conviction politician... This is a compilation of Margaret Thatcher's best quotes, a collection of quotes about her, and a selection of anecdotes presented by Members in the House of Commons and the House of Lords after the announcement of her death in April 2013.

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Publié par	Crombie Jardine Publishing Limited
Date de parution	18 avril 2013
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781291390957
Langue	English

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Margaret Hilda Thatcher (Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven) née Roberts, was born in Grantham, England, on 13 October 1925. She studied Chemistry at Somerville College, Oxford, and worked as a research chemist before entering politics. In 1951, she married Denis Thatcher.

Mention ‘Thatcher’ in the UK and opinion will be clearly divided. However, one thing that is inarguable is that Margaret Thatcher was a formidable character: British stateswoman, Leader of the Conservative Party 1975-1990, Prime Minister 1979-1990, Britain’s first female prime minister; the longest-serving prime minister of the 20th century; self-confessed conviction politician…

Margaret Thatcher was known for her distinctive leadership style – strong, steady and determined – which quickly earned her the nickname of the Iron Lady. Her time in office saw: the year-long miners’ strike and the subsequent closure of coal mines, followed by the massive loss of jobs; the reduction of the power of the trade unions; the Maze Prison hunger strikes by IRA (Provisional Irish Republican Army) and NLA (National Liberation Army) prisoners; a failed assassination attempt by the IRA in Brighton, 1984; the signing of the Anglo-Irish agreement; the deregulation of the Stock Exchange; the privatisation of state-owned companies; the decline of the north’s manufacturing industry; Sunday trading for shops; education reforms; an increase in home-ownership; a close alliance with the US during the Cold War; the implementation of the vilified poll tax; a stand against the sanctions imposed on South Africa by the Commonwealth and the EC for apartheid; an opposition to the UK’s membership of the Exchange Rate Mechanism; and the Falklands War…

Margaret Thatcher died of a stroke in London on 8 April 2013. Her ceremonial funeral was held in London on 17 April, at St Paul’s Cathedral, and was attended by over 2,000 politicians, dignitaries and celebrities.

Here follows a compilation of Margaret Thatcher’s best quotes, a collection of quotes about her, and a selection of anecdotes presented by Members in the House of Commons and the House of Lords after the announcement of her death.

IN HER OWN WORDS

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

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A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

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Being powerful is like being a lady: if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.

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Being Prime Minister is a lonely job. In a sense, it ought to be: you cannot lead from the crowd. But with Denis there, I was never alone. What a man. What a husband. What a friend.

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Crime is crime is crime, it is not political, it is crime.

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Defeat? I do not recognise the meaning of the word.

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Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

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Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the high road to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

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Economics are the method; the object is to change the heart and soul.

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Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

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Every prime minister needs a Willie.
( Referring, of course, to William Whitelaw, Deputy Prime Minister at the time. )

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I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

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I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

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I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

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I am not a consensus politician. I’m a conviction politician.

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I am not immortal, but I’ve got a lot left in me yet.

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I came to office with one deliberate intent: to change Britain from a dependent to a self-reliant society; from a give-it-to-me to a do-it-yourself nation; a get-up-and-go instead of a sit-back-and-wait-for-it Britain.

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I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

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I don’t mind how much my ministers talk, as long as they do what I say.

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I don't think there will be a woman prime minister in my lifetime.

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If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of the main bulwarks of individual freedom, then he had better become a socialist and have done with it.

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I fight on; I fight to win.

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If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn’t swim.

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If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time and you would achieve nothing.

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If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

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I like Mr Gorbachev. We can do business together.

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I love argument. I love debate. I don’t expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me; that’s not their job.

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I’m back … and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign The Mummy Returns .

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In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.

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I owe nothing to Women’s Lib.

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I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

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I stand before you tonight in my Red Star chiffon evening gown, my face softly made up and my fair hair gently waved, the Iron Lady of the Western world. A Cold War warrior, an Amazon philistine, even a Peking plotter. Well, am I any of these things? Well, yes … I am an iron lady: after all, it wasn’t a bad thing to be an iron duke. Yes, if that’s how they wish to interpret my defence of values and freedoms fundamental to our way of life.

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I think I have become a bit of an institution – you know, the sort of thing people expect to see around the place.

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I think we have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand, ‘I have a problem, it is the government’s job to cope with it’ or, ‘I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope with it’, ‘I am homeless, the government must house me’. And so they are casting their problems on society, and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families, and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then also to help look after our neighbour.

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It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.