Margaret Thatcher: o ideário

Goste-se ou não do estilo e do ideário (eu, confesso, não me identifico com a maior parte), a verdade é que Margaret Thatcher foi de facto uma mulher de ferro. Algumas das suas declarações que ficaram para a História, coligidas pelo The Hufftington Post:

"There are dangers in consensus: it could be an attempt to satisfy people holding no particular views about anything. ... No great party can survive except on the basis of firm beliefs about what it wants to do." - Thatcher in 1968 at the Conservative Party conference

"No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well." - Thatcher in 1986.

"I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end." - Thatcher in 1989

"You turn if you want to; the lady's not for turning." - Thatcher in 1980

"Pennies don't fall from heaven, they have to be earned here on earth." - Thatcher in 1979

"Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country." - Thatcher in 1979

"If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time and you would achieve nothing." - Thatcher in 1989 on her 10th anniversary as prime minister.