Political Insults & Putdowns

Quotes and Insulting Quotations from Margaret Thatcher

You don't reach Downing Street by pretending you've travelled the road to Damascus when you haven't even left home
On Neil Kinnock

Treachery with a smile on its face
On being removed from office

It's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands, when you have spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment
On the Falklands War

In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman

One thing that politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex

Jezebel
Rev Ian Paisley on Margaret Thatcher

Attila the Hen
Clement Freud on Margaret Thatcher

The Immaculate Misconception
Norman St John-Stevas on Margaret Thatcher

She sounded like the Book of Revelations read out over a railway station public address system by a headmistress of a certain age wearing calico knickers
Clive James on Margaret Thatcher

The Prime Minister tells us she has given the French president a piece of her mind, not a gift I would receive with alacrity
Denis Healy on Margaret Thatcher