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.
„Ich bin außerordentlich geduldig, vorausgesetzt, ich kriege am Ende, was ich wollte.“
als "O-Ton Thatcher" zitiert von Roger Boyes in Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte(APuZ), 47/2005, S. 4. http://www.bpb.de/publikationen/23724I,0,Maggies_Zehn_Gebote_Essay.html <br class="br">Original englisch: "I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end."
„So etwas wie eine Gesellschaft gibt es nicht.“
im englischen Original und im Kontext: "They are casting their problems at society. And, you know, there's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look after themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then, also, to look after our neighbours." In: Interview mit Woman's Own http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=106689 vom 23. September 1987.
„Wir haben aufgehört, eine Nation auf dem Rückzug zu sein.“
am 3. Juli 1982 nach dem Sieg im Falklandkrieg, zitiert bei Thomas Kielinger: Maggie Thatcher scheitert an sich selbst. DIE WELT 28.02.2009 http://www.welt.de/welt_print/article3290143/Maggie-Thatcher-scheitert-an-sich-selbst.html <br class="br">Original engl.: "We have ceased to be a nation in retreat." - Speech to Conservative Rally at Cheltenham, 3. Juli 1982 ( Thatcher Archive: CCOPR 486/82 http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104989)
„Rückzug ist manchmal eine erforderliche Taktik. Als dauerhafte Politik aber nagt er an der Seele.“
Original englisch: "Retreat as a tactic is sometimes necessary; retreat as a settled policy eats at the soul." - The Downing Street Years. HarperCollins Publishers, New York, NY, 1993, p. 104, nach Aaron Plavnik http://womenineuropeanhistory.org/index.php?title=Margaret_Thatcher#cite_ref-2
„Zweimal haben wir die Deutschen geschlagen. Jetzt sind sie wieder da.“
nach: Helmut Kohl, Erinnerungen 1982-1990, München 2005, S. 1013 (siehe auch „Jubiläumsausgabe“,2014, S. 88 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=f6RmBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT88), 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 http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-43103209.html <br class="br">Zugeschrieben
Criticising the Thames Television programme "Death on the Rock", in an interview with Hatsuhisa Takashima of NHK Japanese television (29 April 1988) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=107058 <br class="br">Third term as Prime Minister
Quoted from Margaret Thatcher, Article for Newsweek “Don’t undo my work” (27 April 1992).
Post-Prime Ministerial
The Path To Power (1995)
Radio Interview for BBC Radio 4 The World this Weekend (4 January 1981) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104477 <br class="br">First term as Prime Minister
Speech at the Winston Churchill Foundation Award dinner (29 September 1983) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/105450 <br class="br">Second term as Prime Minister
“When people are free to choose, they choose freedom.”
Speech to the Industrial League of Orange County (14 March 1991) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/108266 <br class="br">Post-Prime Ministerial
TV Interview for BBC1 Panorama (8 June 1987) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/106647 <br class="br">Second term as Prime Minister
“Our sovereignty does not come from Brussels—it is ours by right and by heritage.”
Speech in the House of Commons (26 June 1991) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/108276 <br class="br">Post-Prime Ministerial
On Western non-intervention in Bosnia, as reported in 'Thatcher warns of "Holocaust" risk in Bosnia appeal' by Anthony Bevins and Stephen Goodwin in The Independent (17 December 1992)
Post-Prime Ministerial
Speech to Conservative Party Conference (13 October 1989) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/107789 <br class="br">Third term as Prime Minister
Speech at "Youth for Europe" Rally (2 June 1979) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104088 <br class="br">First term as Prime Minister
Said to Woodrow Wyatt (23 November 1990), Sarah Curtis (ed.), The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt. Volume Two (Pan, 2000), pp. 401-402.
Third term as Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher buch Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World
Quelle: Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World, p. xxv
Margaret Thatcher buch Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World
Quelle: Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World, p. 50
“Pennies don't fall from heaven, they have to be earned here on earth.”
Speech at Lord Mayor's Banquet (12 November 1979) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=104167 <br class="br">First term as Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher buch Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World
Quelle: Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World, p. 65
Quoted from an interview with Stina Dabrowski. Margaret Thatcher on rising to power, and resigning from it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_gnhy7eT1s (1995) <br class="br">Post-Prime Ministerial
“A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.”
Attributed to her in Commons debates, 2003-07-02, column 407 http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm200203/cmhansrd/vo030702/debtext/30702-10.htm and Commons debates, 2004-06-15 column 697 http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmhansrd/vo040615/debtext/40615-20.htm#40615-20_spnew1. According to a letter http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Content/displayPrintable.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/11/02/nosplit/dt0201.xml&site=15&page=0 to the Daily Telegraph by Alistair Cooke on 2 November 2006, this sentiment originated with Loelia Ponsonby, one of the wives of 2nd Duke of Westminster who said "Anybody seen in a bus over the age of 30 has been a failure in life". In a letter http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/3633852/Letters-to-the-Daily-Telegraph.html published the next day, also in the Daily Telegraph, Hugo Vickers claims Loelia Ponsonby admitted to him that she had borrowed it from Brian Howard. There is no solid evidence that Margaret Thatcher ever quoted this statement with approval, or indeed shared the sentiment. <br class="br">Misattributed
“My job is to stop Britain from going red.”
Speech to Institute of Public Relations (2 November 1977) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/103192 <br class="br">Leader of the Opposition
Interview for Business Week Magazine (11 February 1985) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/105836. <br class="br">Second term as Prime Minister
Speech to Scottish Tories in 1999 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Did+they+REALLY+say+that%3F+AS+A+SHORTLIST+IS+COMPILED+OF+THE+YEAR%27S...-a0109790331 <br class="br">Post-Prime Ministerial
Speech to 1922 Committee (19 July 1984) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/105563, quoted in John Campbell, Margaret Thatcher. The Iron Lady (London: Jonathan Cape, 2003), p. 361. <br class="br">Second term as Prime Minister
From her last House of Commons speech (22 November 1990) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/108256; response to M.P. Simon Hughes <br class="br">Third term as Prime Minister
Speech to Finchley Conservatives (20 October 1984) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/105769 on the Brighton bombing <br class="br">Second term as Prime Minister
Prime Minister's Questions (11 December 1980) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104460 <br class="br">First term as Prime Minister
Remarks to journalists in Downing Street (21 November 1990) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=108252, following the inconclusive first ballot in the Conservative leadership election. <br class="br">Third term as Prime Minister
