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
We had to do what we had to do - Britain is great again.
(Not) even the US can impose peace: it has to be genuinely accepted by both parties involved.
[On being asked how many Mrs. Thatchers there were:] Oh, three at least. There is the intellectual one, the intuitive one and the one at home.
There are too few rich and too few profits.
[When asked how it felt to be a female prime minister:] I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative.
We need a free economy not only for the renewed material prosperity it will bring, but because it is indispensable to individual freedom, human dignity and to a more just, more honest society.
Freedom under the law must never be taken for granted.
In my view dictators do not surrender. They have to be well and truly defeated.
I have never knowingly made a non-controversial speech in my life.
How thin is the crust of order over the fires of human appetite and the lust for naked power.
... when a big man has a big idea I never like to stand in his way.
If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership -- you are practicing followership.
Never flinch. Make up your own mind and do it.
If a woman like Eva Peron with no ideals can get that far, think how far I can go with the ideals that I have.