Inspiration for Sarah Palin: Quotes from The Great Margaret Thatcher

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[quesney]

Thatcher quotes:

"If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing."

"My job is to stop Britain going red."

"Socialists cry "Power to the people", and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean—power over people, power to the State."

"To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects."

"My policies are based not on some economics theory, but on things I and millions like me were brought up with: an honest day's work for an honest day's pay; live within your means; put by a nest egg for a rainy day; pay your bills on time; support the police."

""Singapore's success shows us that: 1) A country's wealth need not depend on natural resources, it may even ultimately benefit from their absence, 2) The greatest resource of all is Man, 3) What government has to do is to set the framework for human talent to flourish."

"Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.""

"At one end of the spectrum are the terrorist gangs within our borders, and the terrorist states which finance and arm them. At the other are the hard left operating inside our system, conspiring to use union power and the apparatus of local government to break, defy and subvert the law."

"Constitutions have to be written on hearts, not just paper."

"If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman."

'"Of course, people tell me that I shouldn't gloat. Well, I am gloating."

"When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment, it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands."

"You would make Neville Chamberlain look like a warmonger."

"When you fight -- fight to win."

"To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catchphrase, the (economic policy) U-turn, I have only one thing to say: You turn if you want to. [laughter] The lady's not for turning."

"No. No. No."

"On my way here I passed a local cinema and it turns out you were expecting me after all, for the billboards read ''The Mummy Returns" (2001)

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Quotes about Thatcher:

"Is the Right Honorable Lady aware that the report has now been received about a certain substance recently subjected to analysis and that I have obtained a copy of the report? It shows that the substance under test consisted of *ferrous* matter of the highest quality, that it is of exceptional tensile strength, is highly resistant to wear and tear and to stress, and may be used with advantage for all national purposes?" --Enoch Powell to Mrs. Thatcher after the British victory in the Falklands War

"She always gave me headaches." --Helmut Kohl, from his memoirs 1982-1990, cited in "Kohl lambasts 'ice-cold' Thatcher", BBC News (3 November 2005).

"Don’t think of her as a politician. Think of her as a one-woman revolution – a hurricane in human form. --Andrew Marr

"What does she want, this housewife? My balls on a tray?" --Jacques Chirac, then Prime minister of France, during the February 1988 Brussels summit;

[quesney]

Excelsior, Madame Vice President. They can not touch you.

[chickpundit]

Thanks, these quotes are great. LOL at Chirac ... it must have been too late to acquiesce to the Iron Lady’s demands or he would have surrendered :)

Go Sarah!

[GulfWar1Vet]

Excellent quotes.

What was she called, the “Iron Woman”, something like that?

[GulfWar1Vet]

“Iron Lady”, that’s it.

[Tolik]

Nailed It!
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[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Can’t go wrong with Thatcher!

[april15Bendovr]

I would love her to use this quote

“Here the country had finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism and they don’t want to fight it. They would have, except it would put them on the same side as the United States.” Ann Coulter-

[Enchante]

"What does she want, this housewife? My balls on a tray?" --Jacques Chirac, then Prime minister of France, during the February 1988 Brussels summit"

ROFL. Answer = YES

[Royal Wulff]

Here’s my favorite Thatcher story, unfortunately as told by Peggy Noonan:

The story as I was told it is that in the early years of her prime ministership, Margaret Thatcher held a meeting with her aides and staff, all of whom were dominated by her, even awed. When it was over she invited her cabinet chiefs to join her at dinner in a nearby restaurant. They went, arrayed themselves around the table, jockeyed for her attention. A young waiter came and asked if they’d like to hear the specials. Mrs. Thatcher said, “I will have beef.”

Yes, said the waiter. “And the vegetables?”

“They will have beef too.”

Too good to check, as they say. It is certainly apocryphal, but I don’t want it to be. It captured her singular leadership style, which might be characterized as “unafraid.”

She was a leader.

[loungeSerf]

Superb quotes! I do miss Lady Thatcher.

[6SJ7]

Pull quote that fits today's election...

"If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman."

This one should fit Biden to a tee...

"What does she want, this housewife? My balls on a tray?" --
Jacques Chirac, then Prime minister of France, during the February 1988 Brussels summit;

[april15Bendovr]

And I have no doubt that the American people generally believe the world is safer, and that we are safer, when we are stronger.
Jeane Kirkpatrick

Democrats can’t get elected unless things get worse - and things won’t get worse unless they get elected.
Jeane Kirkpatrick

That is simply that Marxism has been tremendously fashionable in our time, so it has infected a very large number of major institutions in many countries of the world. So I suppose that we shouldn’t be too surprised that it should infect the church as well.
Jeane Kirkpatrick

[april15Bendovr]

http://www.heritage.org/About/Departments/thatchercenter.cfm

THE MARGARET THATCHER CENTER FOR FREEDOM

Nile Gardiner, Director

The Margaret Thatcher Foundation, which is dedicated to promoting Lady Thatcher’s vision of political and economic freedom throughout the world, has chosen Heritage as the repository of her legacy in America.

To that end, the Thatcher Foundation has given us a substantial donation to establish the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at The Heritage Foundation.

The mission of the Thatcher Center will be to give the world a greater understanding of the principles of limited government, representative democracy, market economics, the rule of law and strong national defenses. These principles have their roots in the cultural patrimony of Europe, are manifested most successfully in Great Britain and the United States, and promoted most effectively through the close and vital historical alliance between our two great nations.

[smokingfrog]

From her "Iron Lady" Speech

There are moments in our history when we have to make a fundamental choice.

This is one such moment—a moment when our choice will determine the life or death of our kind of society,—and the future of our children.

Let's ensure that our children will have cause to rejoice that we did not forsake their freedom.

[Sacajaweau]

Thanks for the very appropriate quotes.

[saganite]

Reading that makes me nostalgic for real leadership. She was one great lady.

[Twinkie]

Was it Reagan who quoted the saying (that he may have heard from Margaret Thatcher?) - “Never mud wrestle with a pig. You’ll only get dirty, and the pig likes it.”