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Margaret Thatcher Quotes

Quotes About Margaret Thatcher

By Jone Johnson Lewis, About.com

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• She approaches the problems of our country with all the one-dimensional subtlety of a comic-strip. - Denis Healey

• Attila the Hen. - Clement Freud

• Margaret Thatcher's great strength seems to be the better people know her, the better they like her. But, of course, she has one great disadvantage - she is a daughter of the people and looks trim, as the daughters of the people desire to be. Shirley Williams has such an advantage over her because she's a member of the upper-middle class and can achieve that kitchen-sink-revolutionary look that one cannot get unless one has been to a really good school. - Rebecca West

• For the past few months she has been charging about like some bargain basement Boadicea. - Denis Healey

• When Mrs Thatcher says she has a nostalgia for Victorian values I don't think she realises that 90 per cent of her nostalgia would be satisfied in the Soviet Union. - Peter Ustinov

• Reality hasn't really intervened in my mother's life since the seventies. - Carol Thatcher, Margaret Thatcher's daughter

• I think I have become a bit of an institution - you know, the sort of thing people expect to see around the place. - Margaret Thatcher about herself

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Quote collection assembled by Jone Johnson Lewis. Each quotation page in this collection and the entire collection © Jone Johnson Lewis 1997-2005. This is an informal collection assembled over many years. I regret that I am not be able to provide the original source if it is not listed with the quote.

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