Margaret Thatcher/prime Minister 1979%e2%80%931990

Famous quotes containing the words margaret thatcher, thatcher, prime and/or minister:

    I think perhaps we manage our revolutions much more quietly in this country.
    Margaret Thatcher (b. 1925)

    I owe nothing to Women’s Lib.
    —Margaret Thatcher (b. 1925)

    One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced; he should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
    Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)

    [T]he minister preached a sermon on Jonah and the whale, at the end of which an old chief arose and declared, “We have heard several of the white people talk and lie; we know they will lie, but this is the biggest lie we ever heard.”
    —Administration in the State of Miss, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)