It will be Blair,Blair, Blair just as it wasThatcher,Thatcher, Thatcher.

-Benn,Tony (Anthony Neil Wedgwood)
  Replying to a student's question on the supremacy of prime ministerial power.

   For the past few months, [Margaret Thatcher] has been charging around likesome bargain-basement Boadicea.

-Healey, Denis Winston Healey, Baron
  In the Observer,7 Nov.

I am persuaded now that I have a better prospect than MrsThatcher of leading the Conservatives to a fourth electoral victoryand preventing the ultimate calamity of a Labour government.

-Heseltine, Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine, Baron
  On announcing his decision to stand for the leadership, Nov.

Thenannyseemedtobe extinct until1975, when, likethe coelacanth, shesuddenlyand unexpectedly reappeared in the shape of Margaret Thatcher.

-Hoggart, Simon David
  In Vanity Fair,  Aug.

If Margaret Thatcher wins onThursday, I warn you not to be ordinary,I warnyou not to be young,I warnyou not to fall ill, I warn you not to get old.

-Kinnock, Neil Gordon
  Speech one day before polling,  Jun.

I've met serial killers and professional assassins and nobody scared me as much as MrsT.

-Livingstone, Ken
  On Margaret Thatcher. In The Times,7 Mar.

Margaret Thatcher is a brilliant tyrant surrounded by mediocrities.

-Stockton
  In Newsweek,12 Oct.

Ispeakof that most dangerous duoöPresident Ray-Gun and the plutonium blonde, Margaret Thatcher.

-Scargill, Arthur
  Quoted in Time, 3 Dec.

[Margaret Thatcher] has turned the British bulldog into a Reagan poodle.

-Steel, David Martin Scott Steel, Baron
  In Time, 28 Apr.

I think it's essential for comic writers to have a hate figure, a despot, a regime to react against, and I think Thatcher was perfect for me, I loathed everything she stood for.

-Townsend, Sue
  In the Observer, 24 Mar.

Idon't seehow we cantalk with MrsThatcher† Iwill say to the lads,'Come on, get your snouts in the trough.'

-Weighell, Sidney
  Speech, London,10 Apr.

Who is there in that lot one would want as a father, except perhaps MrsThatcher? That choice would be irregular but safe.

-West, Dame Rebecca formerly  Cecily Isabel Fairfield
  Of British Prime Ministers.1900, introduction.