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Margaret Thatcher

Geburtstag: 13. Oktober 1925
Todesdatum: 8. April 2013
Andere Namen:Margaret Thatcherová,Margaret Hilda Thatcher

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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„Rückzug ist manchmal eine erforderliche Taktik. Als dauerhafte Politik aber nagt er an der Seele.“

— Margaret Thatcher

„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

Über Krieg

„So etwas wie eine freie Gesellschaft gibt es nicht.“

— Margaret Thatcher
Bernhard Walpen: Die offenen Feinde und ihre Gesellschaft. Eine hegemonietheoretische Studie zur Mont Pèlerin Society, Hamburg (2004)

„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.

Über Krieg

„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

„Watch your thoughts, for they will become actions. Watch your actions, for they'll become... habits. Watch your habits for they will forge your character. Watch your character, for it will make your destiny.“

— Margaret Thatcher

„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

„Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.“

— Margaret Thatcher

„Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.“

— Margaret Thatcher

„I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.“

— Margaret Thatcher

„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

„The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.“

— Margaret Thatcher

„We are all unequal. No one, thank heavens, is like anyone else“

— Margaret Thatcher
Context: Some Socialists seem to believe that people should be numbers in a State computer. We believe they should be individuals. We are all unequal. No one, thank heavens, is like anyone else, however much the Socialists may pretend otherwise. We believe that everyone has the right to be unequal but to us every human being is equally important. Speech to the Conservative Party Conference (10 October 1975) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102777

„It is a fight about the very foundations of the social order. It is a crusade not merely to put a temporary brake on Socialism, but to stop its onward march once and for all.“

— Margaret Thatcher
Context: I call the Conservative Party now to a crusade. Not only the Conservative Party. I appeal to all those men and women of goodwill who do not want a Marxist future for themselves or their children or their children's children. This is not just a fight about national solvency. It is a fight about the very foundations of the social order. It is a crusade not merely to put a temporary brake on Socialism, but to stop its onward march once and for all. Speech to Conservative Party Conference (8 October 1976) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/103105

„There were times when I had to remind myself that our parents and grandparents brought us up without trendy theories and they didn't make such a bad job of it.“

— Margaret Thatcher
Context: Perhaps [the] most important reason for the fall in standards and increase in crime—the attack on traditional values. It is not surprising that sometimes parents have been confused about the endless advice and the many rival theories on how to bring up children. There were times when I had to remind myself that our parents and grandparents brought us up without trendy theories and they didn't make such a bad job of it. So it would seem that the tried and trusted values and commonsense application would lead to far better results than we are now experiencing. We must teach that each of us is a responsible person who can choose his own course of action and who has a duty to others to do as he would be done by. That morality is largely based on religious values. Cut the stem and the plant withers. That is why we have been so keen to keep religious teaching in our schools. To those who say that is indoctrinating children, I would reply—it is no such thing. It is a practical recognition of the truth that while an adult may, if he wishes, reject the faith in which he has been brought up, a child will find it difficult to acquire any faith at all without some instruction in the discipline of belief and practice. Speech to Conservative Women's Conference (24 May 1978) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/103696.