231 Quotes filtered by Margaret Thatcher
Every Prime Minister needs a Willie.
Margaret Thatcher
Category: Double Entendres, Prime Minister (Office of)
Oh you are saucy!
Margaret Thatcher 1980
To photographers, who had asked her to move closer to Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau
Category: Flirtation
Kenneth Clarke: Isn't it terrible about losing to the Germans at our national sport, Prime Minister?
Margaret Thatcher: I shouldn't worry too much - we've beaten them twice this century at theirs.
Margaret Thatcher 06/1990
Following England's loss to Germany in the 1990 World Cup Soccer Semi Final
We introduced the Community Charge. I still call it that. I like the Poles - I never had any intention of taxing them.
Margaret Thatcher 22/11/1996
Category: Community Charge/Poll Tax
Francois Mitterand: Shall we have a break now?
Margaret Thatcher: No, let's get on.
[The lights fuse and the room is plunged into darkness]
Margaret Thatcher: Why can't we discuss the Social Chapter now?
Margaret Thatcher 1989
At the EC Strasbourg summit
Category: Repartee
I am not quite certain what my Right Honourable Friend said, but we both hold precisely the same view.
Margaret Thatcher 01/1989
Category: Repartee
Being in power is like being a lady - if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Margaret Thatcher
Category: Feminism
I have very strong views about Europe. We're quite the best country. We rescued them. We're not going to get entangled with them. We've got to keep our own independence. Is that clear?
Margaret Thatcher 10/1999
At a party conference fringe meeting
Category: Eurosceptic
We failed the people.
Margaret Thatcher 02/1974
On the Heath Government
Category: Edward Heath (quotes about)
I am not one who, to quote an American author, believes that democracy and enterprise have finally won the battle of ideas - that we have therefore arrived at the end of history, and there is nothing left to fight for. That would be unutterably complacent, indeed foolish. There will always be threats to freedom, not only from frontal assaults, but more insidiously by erosion from within.
Margaret Thatcher 14/11/1989
Category: Freedom & Liberty, Ideas
We went back on a very similar manifesto to things I believe in. The difference is that after eighteen months to two years he did the biggest U-turn on policy of all time and started to go the wrong way. In the end, that cost us the next election.
Margaret Thatcher 18/06/1990
On the 1970-74 Heath Government
Category: Edward Heath (quotes about)
We must try to find ways to starve the terrorist or the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
Margaret Thatcher 15/07/1985
Category: Terrorism
I've got my teeth into him, and I'm not going to let go.
Margaret Thatcher 03/02/1975
On Edward Heath during the leadership contest
Category: Edward Heath (quotes about)
You can present people with ideas they may come to believe in, and as a result of them they will act, if they have the opportunities. Presenting people with opportunities is part of what politics is about.
Margaret Thatcher
Category: Opportunity
I exercise my right as a free citizen to spend my own money in my own way, so that I can go on the day, the time, to the doctor I choose and get out fast.
Margaret Thatcher 06/1987
On why she chooses to use private healthcare, causing a political storm during the General Election campaign
Category: Health Issues
The National Health Service is safe with us. The principle of adequate healthcare should be provided for all regardless of ability to pay must be the function of any arrangements for financing the NHS. We stand by that.
Margaret Thatcher 10/1982
Category: Health Issues
Misgovernment...will often be reflected in oppressive or aggressive policies towards groups within the state or towards the state's neighbours.
Margaret Thatcher 24/03/2003
Referring to Zimbabwe
Category: Art of Government, Zimbabwe, State, The
I calculate that I was responsible for proposing the elevation to the Lords of some 214 of its present numbers.
Margaret Thatcher 02/07/1992
Category: House of Lords
The mission of this government is much more than the promotion of economic progress. It is to renew the spirit and solidarity of the nation.
Margaret Thatcher 06/06/1979
Category: Thatcherism
We do not believe that if you cut back what government does you diminish its authority. On the contrary, a government that did less, and therefore did better, would strengthen its authority.
Margaret Thatcher 14/10/1977
Category: Art of Government
