“With the participation of a wide range of policymakers -- from Margaret Thatcher to Jimmy Carter to Condoleezza Rice -- it has helped lay the groundwork for new approaches to national and world issues,”
Walter Isaacson
“I think their real problem is that they have still not recovered from Mrs Thatcher going,”
Tony Blair
“I don't want the Thatcher years back, but I don't want the Brown-Prescott years either. I am prepared to give David Cameron his chance - even though he is a Tory.”
Jeanette Winterson
“Thatcherism has become bigger than she ever was.”
Jonathan Coe
“What (Winston) Churchill did in wartime, Margaret Thatcher did in peacetime.”
Michael Howard
“Of course I invited Bush and Margaret Thatcher and (Spanish former prime minister) Felipe Gonzalez, but we are already at an age where it's not that easy to just travel somewhere.”
Mikhail Gorbachev
“Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.”
Margaret Thatcher