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
New technology is the true friend of full employment; the indispensable ally of progress; and the surest guarantee of prosperity.
The Prime Minister is stealing our clothes but he is going to look pretty ridiculous walking around in mine.
No theory of government was ever given a fairer test or a more prolonged experiment in a democratic country than democratic socialism received in Britain. Yet it was a miserable failure in every respect. ... To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukemia with leeches.
Rooster, maybe well crows, but the eggs still bears the chicken.
I'm either the witch or Lady Macbeth of English politics, but someone gotta wear the pants in England when others wearing kilts
I wasn't lucky. I deserved it.
To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.
Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species-it is the tigress and lioness in you which tends to defend when attacked.
If you have a sense of purpose and a sense of direction, I believe people will follow you. Democracy isn't just about deducing what the people want. Democracy is leading the people as well.
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
During my lifetime most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion or other, from mainland Europe, and the solutions from outside it.
If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.
There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.