Quotes About Thatcherism

#1. Spare me this sanctimony about politeness, please. There are millions of people in this country who hate the very word 'Thatcher' and 'Thatcherism,' which continues until this day.

George Galloway

#2. I think the truth is that the Labour Party isn't believed any more because people suspect it will say anything to get votes. The rebuilding of some radical alternatives to Thatcherism - and by that I mean all-party Thatcherism - will require us to do some very difficult things

Tony Benn

#3. Blair worshipped Thatcherism, could see little or no wrong in it, believed that that was what the country needed, thought that there was no alternative, regarded it as a legacy that had to be built on rather than rejected.

Martin Jacques

#4. Blair - except at the edges - was a Thatcherite. Brown, in contrast, regarded Thatcherism as something that had to be taken on board while at the same time seeking to retain as much as possible of the Labour legacy, or 'Labour values,' as he would put it.

Martin Jacques

#5. I think, historically, the term 'Thatcherism' will be seen as a compliment.

Margaret Thatcher

#6. We will pave the way for a transformation and roll back the years of Thatcherism ... We will turn economic ruin into economic recovery, and above all pave the way for a General Election to elect a Labour Government.

Arthur Scargill

#7. Like Marxism, Thatcherism is, in fact, riddled with contradictions. Mrs. Thatcher, on the other hand, is free of doubt; she is the label on the can of worms.

Julian Critchley

#8. My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.

Yanis Varoufakis

#9. Thatcherism has become bigger than she ever was.

Jonathan Coe

#10. It's disappointing being a Canadian and having friends on that team but that's the way it goes. It's the Olympics. It's disappointing for every Canadian but over the years you've seen the parity with all the teams because it's the best players in the world.

Darren McCarty

#11. When people hear the word "beautiful", they expect something to be pretty. And for me that's not always necessarily the case, y'know.

Brian Molko

#12. I've had to whine for everything I've ever really wanted.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

#13. The last sin, the sin against the Holy Ghost - to lie to oneself. Lying to other people - that's a small thing in comparison.

Rose Macaulay

#14. The problem with love is that there is so much of it to give." King Tommy

Monique Golda Nerman

#15. When people are not aiming for anything in particular or when they cannot monitor their performance, there is little basis for translating perceived efficacy into appropriate magnitudes of effort

Albert Bandura

#16. You never make any of the shots you never take. 87% of the ones you do take, you'll miss too. I make 110% of my shots.

Larry Bird

#17. I have horses, I drive a truck, and I wear cowboy boots. First I'm a Texan.

Henry Thomas

#18. If there is one thing I have learned, from loving Jessamine and even from the evil tasks you have made me do, it is that all forms of life are worthy of compassion.

Maryrose Wood

#19. I live in a world of possibility and opportunity. You look for the light. There's darkness everywhere but you look for that spot of light and you work your way towards it, and you do what it takes to get there.

Annie Lennox

#20. But Teatime was okay. True, after a few minutes talking to him your eyes began to water and you felt you needed to scrub your skin even on the inside, but no one was perfect, were they?

Terry Pratchett

#21. Its APPOINTED to live once, you wanna live twice? ... u've been DISSAPPOINTED

DonRichie