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
Margaret Thatcher buch The Downing Street Years
On Carl Bildt's speech to the International Democratic Union.
The Downing Street Years (1993)
Speech in Belfast (5 March 1981) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104589 <br class="br">First term as Prime Minister
Speech to Chelsea Conservative Association (26 July 1975) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102750 <br class="br">Leader of the Opposition
Speech to the Conservative Political Centre Summer School ("The Renewal of Britain") (6 July 1979) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104107 <br class="br">First term as Prime Minister
“Constitutions have to be written on hearts, not just paper.”
Margaret Thatcher buch Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World
Quelle: Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World, p. 256
“I should therefore prefer to restrict my guidelines to the following:”
Margaret Thatcher buch Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World
Don't believe that military interventions, no matter how morally justified, can succeed without clear military goals
Don't fall into the trap of imagining that the West can remake societies
Don't take public opinion for granted – but don't either underrate the degree to which good people will endure sacrifices for a worthwhile cause
Don't allow tyrants and aggressors to get away with it
And when you fight – fight to win.
Quelle: Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World, p. 39
Speech in the House of Commons (20 May 1982) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104943 <br class="br">First term as Prime Minister
Statement http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/108254 announcing her intention to resign the premiership (22 November 1990). <br class="br">Third term as Prime Minister
Speech to Small Business Bureau Conference (8 February 1984) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=105617 <br class="br">Second term as Prime Minister
Speech in the House of Commons (9 June 1976) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/103046 <br class="br">Leader of the Opposition
Speech in Finchley (31 January 1975) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102605 <br class="br">Shadow Secretary for Environment
Speech to Greater London Young Conservatives (Iain Macleod Memorial Lecture - "Dimensions of Conservatism") (4 July 1977) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/103411 <br class="br">Leader of the Opposition
Margaret Thatcher buch Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World
Quelle: Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World, p. 388
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
“It is not our policy to suppress success.”
The Path To Power (1995)
“What do you think of those two?”
Margaret Thatcher buch The Downing Street Years
(She was holding out The Sun newspaper and was referring to 2 editorials on page 2. Page 3 of The Sun is known for having nude women on it.) Quoted in the first episode of the documentary Thatcher: The Downing Street Years.
First term as Prime Minister
Speech to Conservative Party Conference (11 October 1985) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/106145 <br class="br">Second term as Prime Minister
“I never hugged him, I bombed him.”
Referring to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, specifically to pictures of Tony Blair embracing him <br class="br">Related by Conor Burns MP at Young Britons' Foundation Reception, via <i>The Telegraph</i>, 13th March 2011, Richard Eden http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8378222/Libya-Margaret-Thatcher-gives-Colonel-Gaddafis-Labour-friends-a-history-lesson.html <br class="br">Post-Prime Ministerial
Prime Minister's Questions (15 June 1982) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104968 <br class="br">First term as Prime Minister
“The trouble with you John, is that your spine does not reach your brain.”
On Conservative backbencher John Whittingdale after being summoned to her room to urge MPs to vote against the Maastricht Treaty. Whittingdale was reported to have emerged from the room in tears. (The Times 26 November 1992)
Post-Prime Ministerial
Remark to President of the European Commission Roy Jenkins on her European Community colleagues (22 October 1979), quoted in Roy Jenkins, European Diary, 1977-1981 (London: Collins, 1989), p. 511
First term as Prime Minister
Speech to the Zurich Economic Society “The New Renaissance” (14 March 1977) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/103336 <br class="br">Leader of the Opposition
“The feminists hate me, don't they? And I don’t blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison.”
As quoted by Paul Johnson in Failure of the Feminists http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/6766663/failure-of-the-feminists/, The Spectator, 12 March, 2011. <br class="br">Attributed
Press Conference after Dublin European Council (30 November 1979) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104180 when she was trying to renegotiate Britain's EEC budget contribution at the EEC Summit in Dublin. Often quoted as "I want my money back". <br class="br">First term as Prime Minister
" Statue of Margaret Thatcher unveiled at British Parliament http://legacy.utsandiego.com/news/world/20070221-1456-britain-thatcher-statue.html", Associated Press, 21 February 2007. <br class="br">On the unveiling of a statue of her in the Members' Lobby of the House of Commons. Baroness Thatcher referred to a previous marble statue which was decapitated http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2091200.stm in 2002. <br class="br">Post-Prime Ministerial
“They don't patronize me for being a woman. Nobody puts me down.”
Interview for Daily Express (8 August 1980) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104260 on male heads of state, quoted in Chris Ogden, Maggie: An Intimate Portrait of a Woman in Power (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990), p. 341. <br class="br">First term as Prime Minister
TV Interview for CBS 60 Minutes (15 February 1985) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/105964 <br class="br">Second term as Prime Minister
