While Labour Party orators readily remember the 1980s for Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's free-booting variety of entrepreneurial meritocracy, what gets forgotten is that Thatcher also gave the heave-ho to the old establishment's notion of merit - good breeding, a posh school, and so on.
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Related For the first time perhaps since (1979 to 1990 prime minister) Margaret Thatcher we will have at the... CHANNEL FOUR When I become prime minister, I'm going to buy one of those Margaret Thatcher handbags, and I... PIM FORTUYN They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have bee... KATE CLINTON One of the things I've learned from 'Borgen' is that it's very easy to criticise peo... PILOU ASBAEK For the first time perhaps since Margaret Thatcher, we will have at the head of the Conservative Par... TIM YEO When New Labour came to power, we got a Right-wing Conservative government. I came to realise that v... JIMMY REID Will there be a political backlash against British Prime Minister Theresa May, whose ruling Conserva... PETER BERGEN Of course I invited Bush and Margaret Thatcher and (Spanish former prime minister) Felipe Gonzalez, ... MIKHAIL GORBACHEV I admired Margaret Thatcher - while abhorring much of what she offered - because she was so clearly ... MARTIN JACQUES The current Conservative leadership contest is remarkable for many reasons, ... Not least the fact t... SIMON HOGGART Watching the Commons tribute to Margaret Thatcher was like being suffocated inside a gigantic sticky... SIMON HOGGART Two famous happy warriors - Reagan and his political soulmate, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatc... MONICA CROWLEY It was here in Edinburgh that in the 1980s I joined with many others to protest against Margaret Tha... DOUGLAS ALEXANDER I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right. TONY BLAIR What (Winston) Churchill did in wartime, Margaret Thatcher did in peacetime. MICHAEL HOWARD Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Margaret Thatcher had more impact on the world than any woman ruler since Catherine the Great of Rus... PAUL JOHNSON Any criticism of Thatcher throws a dangerously absurd light on the entire machinery of British polit... MORRISSEY Margaret Thatcher was a 20th century visionary who understood the power of individual freedom versus... JOSEPH J. LHOTA I have an ambivalent relationship with Margaret Thatcher. She came to power in May 1979 - a month be... SARA SHERIDAN Barbara Castle should have been Labour's - and Britain's - first female prime minister. What... PATRICIA HEWITT In the 1980s and 1990s, radical change in economic policies fostered by Ronald Reagan and Margaret T... LAWRENCE KUDLOW Margaret Thatcher was not a malicious person. She was a person who couldn't see, or didn't w... NEIL KINNOCK Socialism and communism fall of their own weight because, as Margaret Thatcher said, you run out of ... LOUIE GOHMERT He said that academia reminded him of a badly run circus. The faculty members were like underfed ani... SUSAN HUBBARD My only thought about Margaret Thatcher is the same one I had about Ronald Reagan. I hated a lot of ... GAIL COLLINS Feminists don't honor successful women. You never hear them talking about Margaret Thatcher. Tak... PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY I'm a very happy, content member of David Cameron's team. I fought very hard to get my frien... GEORGE OSBORNE I'm from the north, so I'm anti-Thatcher. FAYE MARSAY Prime ministers come and go, but so long as he or she lives, the sovereign remains, receiving and re... MICHAEL KORDA I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher. MORRISSEY If there is a better singer in England than Craig David, then I am Margaret Thatcher. ELTON JOHN The nanny seemed to be extinct until 1975, when, like the coelacanth, she suddenly and unexpectedly ... SIMON HOGGART This is the first generation to grow up on Thatcher - it's a different ethos. It's money min... JANE CAMPION Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON 'Eureka' was very bad timing. The early 1980s: Reagan and Thatcher were in, greed was good, ... NICOLAS ROEG Because I am much like Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, I'm such an unconventional political figure... NEWT GINGRICH Margaret Thatcher was in my year, and our first-year college photograph shows us standing side by si... NINA BAWDEN I only met Margaret Thatcher twice. The thing that I thought about meeting her was how extraordinari... SALMAN RUSHDIE She called Margaret Thatcher honey once and I'm sure that's never happened before or since. RITA FORRESTER For 3 million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could... FRANKIE BOYLE Don't get me started on Americans and war. One of the things I learnt over in Italy is how they ... JAMES MCBRIDE But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Mar... GEORGE H. W. BUSH [Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher praised the pontiff's role in toppling communism.] ... MARGARET THATCHER With the participation of a wide range of policymakers -- from Margaret Thatcher to Jimmy Carter to ... WALTER ISAACSON It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON When I started knocking on Highland doors in May 1983, two things struck me more than any other. Fir... CHARLES KENNEDY If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. -Margaret Thatcher. MARGARET THATCHER After a while, no matter how much you love any pop song, you're going to get tired of it. That... JOE PERRY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown w... DOUGLAS HURD My entire life, socially, was all around the Maggie era. That was the great challenge as a Sex Pisto... JOHN LYDON Just as the England football manager starts with bells and flags and balloons and ends up reviled, s... TERRY WOGAN It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON The term 'meritocracy' was coined by socialist theoretician Michael Young, who crafted the p... TERRY GLAVIN The Conservative party is at its strongest when it's not the party that says there is no role fo... GEORGE OSBORNE While 'The Help' is in so many ways a celebration of these women's friendships and what ... BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD The Prime Minister needs to have proper security. But I'm not at all persuaded that hiring luxury ya... CHRIS GRAYLING Like Marxism, Thatcherism is, in fact, riddled with contradictions. Mrs. Thatcher, on the other hand... JULIAN CRITCHLEY I think that if we get back to some basic fundamental principles, we can make sure that we resolve t... ALLEN WEST And men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins C.S. LEWIS A prime minister's job is to make sure the government works for those who have elected him, and ... JACK LAYTON Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher did more to liberate people by defeating the Soviet Union and fr... RUSH LIMBAUGH It's become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement, and Labour achievement even less s... LUCY POWELL When Gordon Brown becomes prime minister, the balance sheet that reflects his economic stewardship c... VINCE CABLE If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you wou... MARGARET THATCHER Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an im... DOUGLAS HURD Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most ... JILL LEPORE I never had a ton of male friends and it's always been something that's really interesting t... TODD PHILLIPS [Conservative Party leader Michael Howard immediately called for Blair to resign, telling reporters ... CHARLES KENNEDY As far as I can judge, Angela Merkel is not like Margaret Thatcher, and she actually should not try ... CHARLES MOORE I once looked over the shoulder of a friend on Facebook and it looked like hieroglyphs to me. There&... FEIST For the show, it's really important that we remember that Lucifer is the Devil. It's importa... TOM ELLIS My background was fairly conservative, and I think there's a strong notion of duty in a backgrou... DAMIAN LEWIS It never gets old. Working with somebody like Kevin Hart is rejuvenating in a lot of ways. He's ... ICE CUBE Disinterested public service has become, just so... what's the phrase, 'old school.' TINA BROWN Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH I think what my hope is is that the only downside of having a steady job on television is, I think f... LAUREN GRAHAM Views are overrated; it's light that counts. I have an apartment in Miami's South Beach, and... MICHAEL GRAVES If it's just screaming - and I know this sounds so ridiculous - that gets old. But sometimes whe... ROBERT PATTINSON And, I hope now that everybody understands that the Labour Party - as it always has done - stands fo... RON DAVIES In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been wi... DOUGLAS ADAMS But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margare... GEORGE BUSH The Lord seeks to establish status quo before His return. He is gathering His sheep, His birds, His ... HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN -SENIOR LEGAL CONSULTANT & AUTHOR When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989, Reagan and Thatcher displayed Churchillian magnanimity towa... ALISTAIR HORNE One of the people that I respect the most now, a person I think has done a heck of a lot for this wo... SANFORD I. WEILL I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it's impossib... ROALD DAHL Commerce and art are natural enemies. And also, the enemy of good is great. And the enemy of great i... DAVID FOSTER A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do. ELIA KAZAN I think more so than the Republican Party, we reflect America on the Democratic side of the aisle, a... MIKE ROSS While loyalists and defectors overall said John Smith did a better job of standing up for Labour'... MICHAEL ASHCROFT If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce... MALCOLM TURNBULL I feel so honored to be able to say "What I do is for my son" without that being an excuse to do stu... C. JOYBELL C. There's always a question of duration, there's a question of who the orchestra is. No one is... MICHAEL NYMAN But above and beyond there's still one name left over, And that is the name that you never will... T.S. ELIOT I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of ... BILLY BRAGG Nuclear, ecological, chemical, economic — our arsenal of Death by Stupidity is impressive for a sp... JEANETTE WINTERSON I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born he... YITZHAK RABIN
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TERRY EAGLETON After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the in... TERRY EAGLETON HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE... TERRY PRATCHETT There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach sma... TERRY PRATCHETT The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord." Vetinari looked at his secretary in surp... TERRY PRATCHETT [And there was the matter of Dick Turpin. It looked like the same car, except that forever afterward... TERRY PRATCHETT Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. TERRY PRATCHETT Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still aliv... TERRY PRATCHETT You can't map a sense of humor. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Drag... TERRY PRATCHETT A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand... TERRY PRATCHETT Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused a... TERRY PRATCHETT Witches are naturally nosy,” said Miss Tick, standing up. “Well, I must go. I hope we shall meet... TERRY PRATCHETT I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any th... TERRY PRATCHETT Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are mi... TERRY PRATCHETT It's still magic even if you know how it's done. TERRY PRATCHETT Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new ... TERRY PRATCHETT If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know whe... TERRY PRATCHETT We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves ... TERRY HANDS I don't think we can ignore the Modern Movement. But I wouldn't have minded at all if it hadn't happ... QUINLAN TERRY The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book. TERRY RILEY It is silly to call fat people gravitationally challenged -- a self-righteous fetishism of language ... TERRY EAGLETON Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally goo... TERRY PRATCHETT Imagination, industry, and intelligence -- the three I s -- are all indispensable to the actress, bu... ELLEN TERRY There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented w... TERRY PRATCHETT Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speec... TERRY EAGLETON Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time aro... TERRY MCCORMICK Sometimes the gods have no taste at all. They allow sunrises and sunsets in ridiculous pink and blue... TERRY PRATCHETT All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move ... TERRY EAGLETON People are capable of doing an awful lot when they have no choice and I had no choice. Courage is wh... TERRY ANDERSON The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but ... TERRY WAITE What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology.... TERRY EAGLETON Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism. TERRY EAGLETON When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge. TERRY BRADSHAW In sport, mental imagery is used primarily to help you get the best out of yourself in training and ... TERRY ORLICK Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the a... TERRY EAGLETON What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence. TERRY BRADSHAW A mistake is a Buddhist gift.
Director Terry Gilliam to Robin Williams. TERRY GILLIAM