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I simply do not understand how Ken Clarke could lead today's Conservative Party to anything other than disaster.
Margaret Thatcher 22/08/2001
On Kenneth Clarke's bid to lead the Conservative Party
Category: Conservative Politicians (quotes about), Conservative Party
The trouble with Nigel is that he's a gambler.
Margaret Thatcher
On Nigel Lawson
Category: Conservative Politicians (quotes about)
He thinks in paragraphs.
Margaret Thatcher
On Lord Cockfield
Category: Conservative Politicians (quotes about)
Others bring me problems, David brings me solutions.
Margaret Thatcher
On Lord Young of Graffham
Category: Conservative Politicians (quotes about)
He supported me steadfastly when I was right, and, more important, when I wasn't.
Margaret Thatcher 1993
On William Whitelaw
Category: Conservative Politicians (quotes about)
Keith and I have no toes.
Margaret Thatcher
n Sir Keith Joseph
Category: Conservative Politicians (quotes about)
The trouble with you is you talk too much. You remind me of Robert Carr.
Margaret Thatcher
On Kenneth Clarke
Category: Conservative Politicians (quotes about)
Nigel was secretive. I think he was a man of many complexes, he was also a man of many, many talents, sometime a very creative person will also have great drawbacks. He did some very imaginative budgets in income tax. He wrote the best budgets as far as style is concerned that we've ever had. I always took the view that you had to take the rough with the smooth. If you have someone with great talent and ability you have to take some of the drawbacks too.
Margaret Thatcher 1993
On Nigel Lawson
Category: Conservative Politicians (quotes about)
Geoffrey was regularly bullied in debate by Denis Healey. But by thorough mastery of his brief and an ability to marshal arguments and advice from different sources, he had shown that beneath a deceptively mild exterior he had the makings of the fine Chancellor he was to become. Some of the toughest decisions were to fall to him. He never flinched. In my view, these were his best political years.
Margaret Thatcher 1993
On Sir Geoffrey Howe
Category: Conservative Politicians (quotes about)
Today I have lost one of my dearest friends, England one of her greatest men. Keith Joseph understood that it was necessary to win again the intellectual argument for freedom, and that to do this we must start from first principles. He was in many ways an unlikely revolutionary. For all his towering intellect, he was deeply humble. He spoke out boldly, however hostile the audience. Yet he hated to give offence. Above all, his integrity shone out in everything he said and did. His best memorial lies in the younger generations of politicians whom he inspired. But for me he is irreplaceable.
Margaret Thatcher 10/12/1994
Tribute to Sir Keith Joseph on the day of his death
Category: Conservative Politicians (quotes about)
Geoffrey's personal style was very different from mine. He has a lovely speaking voice, a quiet speaking voice. But at Cabinet we always reported on foreign affairs - we always had this quiet voice. It was so quiet sometimes I had to say 'speak up'. And he gave it in a way which wasn't exactly scintillating. And you know, foreign affairs are interesting. They affect everything that happened to our own way of life, and they are exciting. And so we just diverged.
Margaret Thatcher 1993
On Sir Geoffrey Howe
Category: Conservative Politicians (quotes about)
I'm making some changes, Geoffrey, and they will involve the Foreign Office.
Margaret Thatcher 24/07/1989
telling Sir Geoffrey Howe of his sacking
Category: Conservative Politicians (quotes about), Reshuffles
He has given this country great service. He is the only one who really thinks the same way as I do.
Margaret Thatcher 09/04/1986
On Cecil Parkinson
Category: Conservative Politicians (quotes about)
The West could have no better or braver champion.
Margaret Thatcher 11/10/1985
Category: Ronald Reagan (quotes about)
Cecil, these have been such happy hours. We have done such a lot for the country together and we will do much more.
Margaret Thatcher 10/10/1983
To Cecil Parkinson on his resignation over the Keays affair
Category: Conservative Politicians (quotes about), Resignations
We all make mistakes now and then. I think it was a mistake, and Jim Prior was very, very sorry indeed for it, and very apologetic. But you don't just sack a chap for one mistake.
Margaret Thatcher 22/01/1980
On Jim Prior after his criticism of British Steel management
Category: Conservative Politicians (quotes about)
John Gummer just did not have the political clout or credibility to rally the troops. I had appointed him as a sort of nightwatchman, but he seemed to have to sleep on the job.
Margaret Thatcher 1993
On John Gummer
Category: Conservative Politicians (quotes about)
He was the extrovert's extrovert. He had prodigious energy; he was and remains the most popular speaker the Party has ever had.Unfortunately, as it turned out, Jeffrey's political judgment did not always match his enormous energy and fund-raising ability: ill-considered remarks got him and the Party into somewhat awkward scrapes, but he always got himself out of them.
Margaret Thatcher 1993
On Jeffrey Archer
Category: Conservative Politicians (quotes about)
He was never popular with the general public who saw what appeared to be a chain-smoking, dishevelled, languid aristocrat; by contrast, he was the object of universal respect and great affection from those who worked with him, above all his officials. Nick had those virtues which seem only to be cultivated in private: he was completely unaffected; he treated people and arguments on their merits; he was incapable of guile; and he was always seeking to take on the unrewarding and popular tasks.
Margaret Thatcher 1993
On Nicholas Ridley
Category: Conservative Politicians (quotes about)
