Margaret Thatcher — "I have a reputation for being obstinate. I don't think I am. I think I'm very fi…"
I have a reputation for being obstinate. I don't think I am. I think I'm very firm.
Get This Quote & Author's Image Illustrated On:
Click any product to generate a realistic preview. Up to 3 at a time.
* Initial load can take up to 90 seconds — revising the preview in another color is nearly instant.
Kitchen
Apparel
Other
More from Margaret Thatcher
"I think I have a reputation for being a bit of a battleaxe. And I don't mind that."
"I am not a person who is easily intimidated."
"There are still people who believe that the state should provide everything. They are wrong. The state provides nothing. It only distributes what others produce."
"The state has no source of money other than the money people earn themselves. If the state wishes to spend more it can only do so by borrowing your savings or by taxing you more."
"I am not a quitter. I am a fighter."
About Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013)
British Prime Minister (1979-1990) whose free-market reforms and confrontation with trade unions defined the late-20th-century right. Closely associated with Ronald Reagan (her closest international ally). For an intellectual contrast, see Tony Benn, Labour cabinet minister and democratic-socialist figurehead — Benn was the loudest parliamentary opposition to Thatcherism throughout the 1980s. His diaries and Thatcher's autobiography are the two opposing histories of the period — Britain's class politics is structured around which view was right.