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Garton Ash immersed himself much more deeply and single-mindedly than Ascherson in the politics of Eastern Europe during the final years of the Cold War. The period may have something to do with the difference. As the Eighties unfolded, the East European oppositions to Communism were steadily drawn into the magnetic field of the West's dominant ideology – the uncompromising doctrines of the Right proclaimed by Reagan and Thatcher. For Garton Ash, then an editor and contributor at the Spectator, this was a natural and desirable evolution. For Ascherson, no friend of Thatcherism, it must have posed more difficulties.
Perry Anderson
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Of Margaret Thatcher:
I cannot bring myself to vote for a woman who has been voice-trained to speak to me as though my dog has just died.
Keith Waterhouse
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Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course women learn it. We're not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man's world, so it talks a man's language.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Margaret Thatcher:
This food is absolutely delicious.
Denis Thatcher:
So it should be. They're charging like the Light Brigade.
Eating in Harry's Bar
Denis Thatcher
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Of Margaret Thatcher:
She has the eyes of Caligula and the lips of Marilyn Monroe.
François Mitterrand
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Margaret Thatcher has added the diplomacy of Alf Garnett to the economics of Arthur Daley.
Denis Healey
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The flat tax I got on my first meeting with Margaret Thatcher, who I admired very much and who was a great admirer of Milton Friedman. I met her first when I had been prime minister I think for some months and so on, and when I told her what I am planning to do, she looked at me with these big eyes and said you are one brave young man. And then a little bit introduced me on the realities of the Western world on which I was not very well informed. But I didn't stop.
Mart Laar
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On December 22, 1986, finding I was body positive, I set myself a target: I would disclose my secret and survive Margaret Thatcher. I did. Now I have set my sights on the millennium and a world where we are all equal.
Derek Jarman
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Margaret Thatcher is one of your great comedians. She says Pinochet brought democracy to Chile. That's like claiming she brought socialism to Britain.
Ariel Dorfman
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If Margaret Thatcher wins – I warn you not to be ordinary. I warn you not to be young. I warn you not to fall ill. I warn you not to get old.
Neil Kinnock
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Of Margaret thatcher:
She was a tigress surrounded by hamsters.
John Biffen
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If you asked her (Margaret Thatcher) about Sinai, she would probably think it was the plural for sinus.
Jonathan Aitken
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In excluding me from the shadow cabinet, Margaret Thatcher has chosen what I believe to be the only wholly honest solution and one which I accept and welcome.
Edward Heath
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Her iron will won international respect. Her unabashed femininity gained women's. Margaret Thatcher was a lady's lady.
Louise Burfitt-Dons
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Cut is the Sure Start maternity allowance. Has [the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Iain Duncan Smith] no idea at all that supporting a family and getting the children out of poverty when the babies are born can save money from the public purse for years to come? Instead, he wants to cut support from the babes in their mothers' arms. At least Margaret Thatcher had the grace to wait until the children were weaned before snatching their support.
Yvette Cooper
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When Reagan and Thatcher came to power, authoritarian populism was a term academics used to describe their politics. Now it's a phenomenon, growing rapidly, cutting across old definitions of left and right, goes the argument. But it's not so simple and the phenomenon is not new. The term authoritarian populist is a construct that, if we are not careful, could blind us to the real roots of centrism's sudden crisis – and to the answers.
Paul Mason (journalist)
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We lost one of one of the great leaders of our lifetime on Monday. She was a true friend of America, and a champion of freedom. We're going to ensure that Margaret Thatcher's legacy is honored by the United States government in a way commensurate with her enormous achievements.
John Boehner
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Of Margaret Thatcher:
She cannot see an institution without hitting it with her handbag.
Julian Critchley
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Of Margaret Thatcher:
And who is the Mephistopheles behind this shabby Faust [the Foreign Secretary, Geoffrey Howe]?…To quote her own backbenchers, the Great She-elephant, She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, the Catherine the Great of Finchley, the Prime Minister herself.
Denis Healey
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Claiming to have explained monetarism to Margaret Thatcher:
It makes one feel like the geography teacher who showed a map of the world to Genghis Khan.
Peter Jay
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Do you know what Margaret Thatcher did in her first Budget? Introduced VAT on yachts! It somewhat ruined my retirement.
Edward Heath
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Going to bed with Gertrude Stein, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Susan Sontag, or Margaret Thatcher: There are some things one prefers neither to do nor to have done.
Edward Abbey
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Dining with her Cabinet:
Mr.s Thatcher:
Steak.
Waiter:
And the vegetables?
Mrs. Thatcher:
Oh, they'll have steak too.
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I played my part in turning the sick country of Europe into one of the most successful and respected in the world. After ten years of Mrs. Thatcher's premiership the talk of the 'English disease' has been replaced by wonder at the 'Thatcher miracle'. Britain the laggard has become Britain the leader and our policies have become the standard against which others are measured.
Norman Tebbit
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You're right, Mr. Thatcher. I did lose a million dollars last year. I expect to lose a million dollars this year. I expect to lose a million dollars next year. You know, Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I'll have to close this place in sixty years.
Herman J. Mankiewicz
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We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Lady Randolph Churchill
Margaret Thatcher
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Born:
October 13, 1925
Died:
April 8, 2013
(aged 87)
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