One Network News - Paul Holmes Meets Margaret Thatcher

We still have in our party some amazingly snobby people who come from backgrounds that have governed the Tory party for a thousand years. So when the daughter of a greengrocer became the leader of the party, that is exactly how they treated her. And she was aware of it, and she killed every one of them.

– Jeffrey Archer

She began to believe her own propaganda. She began to believe that she could walk on water.

– Austin Mitchell

I'm suggesting that (New Zealand) denying access to their ports for ships that were helping to keep the peace, was not right.

– Margaret Thatcher on New Zealand's anti-nuclear policy

Margaret Thatcher was a towering colossus of her time. She transformed her country. She turned it from a country beset by an adverse image of itself, and she made it into a crusading world stage trotter.

– David Lange