Margaret Thatcher/prime Minister 1979-1990

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

    “I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.”
    —Margaret Thatcher (b. 1925)

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

    “Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life. What do you do after you are world-famous and nineteen or twenty and you have sat with prime ministers, kings and queens, the Pope? What do you do after that? Do you go back home and take a job? What do you do to keep your sanity? You come back to the real world.”
    —Wilma Rudolph (1940–1994)

    “Just let him be minister if that’s what he desires, but without his brother and his brother-in-law.”
    —Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)