Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher died April 8, 2013, following a stroke at the age of 87.
Thatcher was a powerful and often divisive figure in
world politics and in her time, made many memorable statements. Here, we
remember a few.
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"Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the
terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they
depend."
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"If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at anytime, and you would achieve nothing."
Photo: Thatcher taking over from Edward Heath as the new leader of the Conservative Party in 1975. |
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"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is
particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one
personally, it means they have not a single political argument left."
Shown here: The Prime Minister speaking in the early 1980s.
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"Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country."
India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi visits Margaret Thatcher in London in this 1980s photo.
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"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."
Shown here: Lady Thatcher was the youngest candidate of the Conservative Party during her election compaign in Dartford in 1950 |
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"Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money."
Shown here: Lady Thatcher with her friend and ideological ally, U.S. President Ronald Reagan. |
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"Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth."
Lady Thatcher is seen here in the 1970s alongside Conservative Party Chairman William Whitelaw. |
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"I like Mr. Gorbachev. We can do business together."
Photo: Prime Minister Thatcher sits for a picture with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the Kremlin on March 30, 1987. |
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"There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty."
Shown here: Lady Thatcher waves to gathered press at here home in November 2010.
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