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She has the ability to see things from the grassroots level and know what is in people's minds.
Michael Portillo 23/05/1995
On Margaret Thatcher
Category: Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
The fact is that Margaret Thatcher was never really a Conservative.
Robert Rhodes James 15/07/1995
Category: Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
She has a pretty face, hasn't she? I expect she's pretty tough. Her great virtue is saying that two and two makes four, which is unpopular nowadays as it always has been. I adore Mrs Thatcher. At last politics make sense to me, which it hasn't since Stafford Cripps.
Philip Larkin
On Margaret Thatcher
Category: Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
She came to respect me, you know. She trusted me the longer I was there. I did some difficult things for her. I could deliver. I came to like her. I suppose I began to like her when she made me a Cabinet Minister. It was a very great honour.
Kenneth Baker 1993
On Margaret Thatcher
Category: Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
Was I ever one of us?
Kenneth Baker 09/1993
to Charles Powell
Category: Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
Mrs Thatcher was not lightly bullied.
Michael Heseltine 11/1991
Category: Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
What has made her a Prime Minister whom so many of us admire is that she has a deep ideological sincerity. She believes. She is not there for herself at all. She is there because she believes we've got it all wrong in terms of ideology in this country. And she's right.
Lord Vinson
Category: Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
Anyone who supposed that when Margaret Thatcher left Number Ten she was going to take a Trappist vow did not know that formidable politician.
Chris Patten 12/1991
Category: Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
As Margaret Thatcher came up in the world, so the Conservative Party came down.
Julian Critchley 1991
Category: Conservative Party, Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
You don't have to leave Number Ten in tears.
Edward Heath 23/01/1991
On Margaret Thatcher's tearful departure.
Category: Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
I've always had a great respect and been very candid with her, and I hope the reverse is the case.
Chris Patten 1990
On Margaret Thatcher
Category: Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
Margaret Thatcher drove us like there was no tomorrow. But I think there is a genuine feeling now that this macho, workaholic, earn lots of money way of life has run its course. There has been a shift in attitude. People are looking for a more balanced approach.
Edwina Currie 29/01/1991
Category: Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
Thatcherism is what you make of it. It was a knowledge that Butskellism did not work, but that one could not adopt market economics and patriotism without having a clear idea of what they entail. Thatcherism's mood was one of impatience with what was going on, the feeling that there were too many Old Etonian's around. In the beginning was the mood, and the mood became Thatcher. It was essentially beliefs, not ideas.
Alfred Sherman 11/1990
On Margaret Thatcher & Thatcherism
Category: Margaret Thatcher (quotes about), Thatcherism
She is a formidable politician. She has always spoken her mind. She has a right to do it and she will continue to do so.
John Major 29/06/1991
On Margaret Thatcher
Category: Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
She carried the cult of the individual much too far and has done us terrible damage in Europe with her fishwife yelling and screaming.
Nicholas Soames
On Margaret Thatcher
Category: Margaret Thatcher (quotes about), Individualism
Do you know what Margaret Thatcher did in her first budget? Introduced VAT on yachts! It somewhat ruined my retirement.
Edward Heath 28/11/1992
Category: Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
I was frequently embarrassed by the way Margaret conducted herself within the European Community. Her tactics were counter-productive and damaging to the UK's interests. On most issues her approach was foolish. Her style and tone of voice came to irk the others so much that they instinctively sank their differences and joined forces against her.
Nigel Lawson
On Margaret Thatcher
Category: Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
I am always there is she needs me and if I need her advice I would certainly approach her.
Gerald Bowden 11/1990
Bowden became Mrs Thatcher's local MP in Dulwich after her resignation in 1990
Category: Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
She was at all times a politician and I was never entirely sure how much the saloon bar xenophobia of her later years represented her own uninhibited feelings and how far she saw it as a potential vote winner.
Nigel Lawson
On Margaret Thatcher
Category: Margaret Thatcher (quotes about)
