„Ich bin außerordentlich geduldig, vorausgesetzt, ich kriege am Ende, was ich wollte.“
— Margaret Thatcher
als "O-Ton Thatcher" zitiert von Roger Boyes in Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte(APuZ), 47/2005, S. 4.
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Margaret Thatcher
Geburtstag: 13. Oktober 1925
Todesdatum: 8. April 2013
Andere Namen:Margaret Thatcherová, Margaret Hilda Thatcher
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Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher LG, OM, PC war eine britische Politikerin. Von 1975 bis 1990 war sie Vorsitzende der Konservativen Partei und von Mai 1979 bis November 1990 Premierministerin des Vereinigten Königreichs.
Sie war die erste und bislang einzige Frau in diesem Amt und übte es ohne Unterbrechung und länger als jeder andere britische Premierminister seit Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts aus. Thatcher wurde für den Thatcherismus namensgebend und in mehreren Songs, Filmen, Büchern und Theaterstücken unter anderem unter ihrem Spitznamen Eiserne Lady abgebildet.
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„So etwas wie eine freie Gesellschaft gibt es nicht.“
— Margaret Thatcher
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„Zweimal haben wir die Deutschen geschlagen. Jetzt sind sie wieder da.“
— Margaret Thatcher
nach: Helmut Kohl, Erinnerungen 1982-1990, München 2005, S. 1013, anlässlich der sich anbahnenden deutschen Wiedervereinigung während des EU-Gipfels im Dezember 1989. Ob Kohls Darstellung zutrifft, ist umstritten. Thatchers Wahlkampfberater Timothy Bell hält sie für "kompletten Quatsch": DER SPIEGEL 14.11.2005
„Wir haben aufgehört, eine Nation auf dem Rückzug zu sein.“
— Margaret Thatcher
am 3. Juli 1982 nach dem Sieg im Falklandkrieg, zitiert bei Thomas Kielinger: Maggie Thatcher scheitert an sich selbst. DIE WELT 28.02.2009
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„There is no such thing as public money; there is only taxpayers’ money.“
— Margaret Thatcher
Context: Let us never forget this fundamental truth: the State has no source of money other than money which people earn themselves. If the State wishes to spend more it can do so only by borrowing your savings or by taxing you more. It is no good thinking that someone else will pay – that ‘someone else’ is you. There is no such thing as public money; there is only taxpayers’ money.
Speech to Conservative Party Conference (14 October 1983) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/105454
„In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.“
— Margaret Thatcher
Speech to members of the National Union of Townswomen’s Guilds, delivered at the Royal Albert Hall (May 20, 1965) ; as quoted in Why Women Should Rule the World, HarperCollins (2008), Dee Dee Myers, p. 227 : . The Margaret Thatcher Foundation http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/101374 gives the following additional information : MT spoke on the theme ‘Woman – No Longer a Satellite.’ The Evening News report of this speech is the origin of a phrase often attributed to her : ‘In politics, ... (etc., as above).’
„Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.“
— Margaret Thatcher
Often attributed to Thatcher, but originally said by Jesse Carr, head of Teamsters Union Local, in Newsweek, Vol. 88 (1976), p. 77
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„The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.“
— Margaret Thatcher
Context: And I will go on criticising Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain – and Britain and Socialism are not the same thing... It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peace-time taxation. They’ve got the usual Socialist disease – they’ve run out of other people's money.
Speech to the Conservative Party Conference (10 October 1975) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102777
The last sentence is widely paraphrased as "The trouble/problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."
„Our principles: freedom, independence, responsibility, choice—these and the democracy built upon them are Britain's special legacy to the world.“
— Margaret Thatcher
Context: Now again in the sands of the Middle East, principle is at stake. Mr President, dictators can be deterred, they can be crushed—but they can never be appeased. These things are not abstractions. What changed the world and what will save the world were principle and resolve. Our principles: freedom, independence, responsibility, choice—these and the democracy built upon them are Britain's special legacy to the world. And everywhere those who love liberty look to Britain. When they speak of parliaments they look to Westminster. When they speak of justice they look to our common law. And when they seek to regenerate their economies, they look to the transformation we British have accomplished. Principles and resolve: They are what changed Britain a decade ago. They are what the Conservative Party brings to Britain. And they alone can secure her freedom and prosperity in the years ahead.
Speech to Conservative Party Conference (12 October 1990) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/108217
„Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where there is despair, may we bring hope“
— Margaret Thatcher
Context: Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where there is despair, may we bring hope.
Statement on the doorstep of 10 Downing Street, after her election as Prime Minister, as quoted at On this day (BBC) http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/4/newsid_2503000/2503195.stm. (This is a paraphrasing of a quote attributed to St. Francis of Assisi).
„I place a profound belief—indeed a fervent faith—in the virtues of self reliance and personal independence“
— Margaret Thatcher
Context: I place a profound belief—indeed a fervent faith—in the virtues of self reliance and personal independence. On these is founded the whole case for the free society, for the assertion that human progress is best achieved by offering the freest possible scope for the development of individual talents, qualified only by a respect for the qualities and the freedom of others... For many years there has been a subtle erosion of the essential virtues of the free society. Self-reliance has been sneered at as if it were an absurd suburban pretention. Thrift has been denigrated as if it were greed. The desire of parents to choose and to struggle for what they themselves regarded as the best possible education for their children has been scorned.
Speech to Conservative Central Council (15 March 1975) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102655
