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
“Remember, George, this is no time to go wobbly.”
To President George H.W. Bush, regarding the Persian Gulf conflict, as reported in an AP story http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19910308&slug=1270460 published March 8,1991 <br class="br">Former Vice President Dick Cheney : It’s an old wive’s story. <br class="br"> Fox News interview (April 8, 2013) http://video.foxnews.com/v/2287344111001/dick-cheney-pays-tribute-to-margaret-thatcher/ with Greta Van Susteren that focused on his recollections of Prime Minister Thatcher <br class="br"> PolitiFact.com http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2013/apr/10/dick-cheney/dick-cheney-margaret-thatcher-go-wobbly/, after a fairly extensive review of available source material, concluded, We rate Cheney’s claim False. <br class="br">Disputed
Prime Minister's Questions (22 June 1982) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104972 <br class="br">First term as Prime Minister
Speech to Conservative Party Conference (12 October 1990) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/108217 <br class="br">Third term as Prime Minister
“I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air—the rather nauseating stench of appeasement.”
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/108234 On a parliament debate about the Gulf War <br class="br">Third term as Prime Minister
Speech in the House of Commons (20 November 1991) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/108291 <br class="br">Post-Prime Ministerial
TV Interview for Granada TV (1 June 1983) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/105096 <br class="br">First term as Prime Minister
Debate in the House of Commons (30 October 1990) http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm198990/cmhansrd/1990-10-30/Debate-1.html <br class="br">Third term as Prime Minister
“If they do not wish to confer the honour, I am the last person who would wish to receive it.”
Remarks after Oxford University voted not to award her an honorary degree. Mail on Sunday (3 February 1985), quoted in John Campbell, Margaret Thatcher. The Iron Lady (London: Jonathan Cape, 2003), p. 399.
Second term as Prime Minister
Keith Joseph Memorial Lecture (11 January 1996) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=108353 <br class="br">Post-Prime Ministerial
Speech in the House of Commons (15 June 1982) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104969 <br class="br">First term as Prime Minister
Speech in the House of Commons (10 March 1981) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104593 <br class="br">First term as Prime Minister
After UK Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd claimed lifting the arms embargo to Bosnians would create a "level killing field", as reported in 'Thatcher says massacre brings shame on west' by Philip Webster and Robert Morgan in The Times (14 April 1993)
Post-Prime Ministerial
Speech to Conservative Central Council ("The Historic Choice") (20 March 1976) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102990 <br class="br">Leader of the Opposition
Radio Interview for BBC Radio 3 (17 December 1985) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/105934 <br class="br">Second term as Prime Minister
Speech to Finchley Conservatives (31 January 1976) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102947 <br class="br">Leader of the Opposition
Speech to the Aspen Institute ("Shaping a New Global Community") (5 August 1990) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/108174 <br class="br">Third term as Prime Minister
Prime Minister's Questions (4 May 1981) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104649 regarding the 1981 Irish hunger strike. <br class="br">First term as Prime Minister
Interview for Director magazine (4 July 1983) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/105182, quoted in Chris Ogden, Maggie: An Intimate Portrait of a Woman in Power (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990), p. 345. <br class="br">Second term as Prime Minister
“I can't bear Britain in decline. I just can't.”
Interviewed http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/103864 by Michael Cockerell for BBC TV's Campaign '79 (27 April 1979). <br class="br">Leader of the Opposition
Remarks on The Constitution of Liberty by F. A. Hayek during a visit to the Conservative Research Department (summer 1975), quoted in John Ranelagh, Thatcher's People (London: HarperCollins, 1991), p. ix.
Leader of the Opposition
Press Conference for Washington Post and Newsweek (17 November 1988) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/107390 <br class="br">Third term as Prime Minister
In a telephone call to Michael Portillo the morning after the 1997 General Election
Post-Prime Ministerial
TV Interview for BBC (11 May 1987) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/106615 <br class="br">Second term as Prime Minister
“The lady is not for turning.”
10 Downing Street, Mémoires, 1993
“When you fight – fight to win.”
Thatcher, Margaret (2002). Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-095912-6.
“Don't allow tyrants and aggressors to get away with it”
Thatcher, Margaret (2002). Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-095912-6.
Thatcher, Margaret (2002). Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-095912-6.
“Don't fall into the trap of imagining that the West can remake societies”
Thatcher, Margaret (2002). Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-095912-6.
