I admired Margaret Thatcher - while abhorring much of what she offered - because she was so clearly a leader of huge substance. Blair was the dismal opposite.

Margaret Thatcher was not a malicious person. She was a person who couldn't see, or didn't want to see, the unfairness and disadvantaging consequences of the application of what she thought to be a renewing ideology.

What (Winston) Churchill did in wartime, Margaret Thatcher did in peacetime.

They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have been women, you know, Sonia Gandhi for heaven's sakes in India.

No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher.

If there is a better singer in England than Craig David, then I am Margaret Thatcher.