“They don't patronize me for being a woman. Nobody puts me down.”
Interview for Daily Express (8 August 1980) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104260 on male heads of state, quoted in Chris Ogden, Maggie: An Intimate Portrait of a Woman in Power (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990), p. 341.
First term as Prime Minister
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“Nobody taught me how to say no when a beautiful naked woman begs me to take my clothes off.”
Source: The Laundry Files, The Jennifer Morgue (2006), Chapter 7, “Nightmare Beach” (p. 144)
“Nobody ever accused me of being objective.”
As quoted in Multer-Wellin, B. (2006). Paul Conrad: Drawing Fire http://www.hulu.com/watch/55119. Documentary, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
“They won’t put up a statue to me. No, no, no. Nobody’s got that sense of humour.”
Source: From the documentary Robert Muldoon: The Grim Face of Power, 1994
Context: Responding to a journalist while attending the unveiling of a statue of Sir Keith Holyoake.
Quoted in Geoff Pevere, "Getting noticed: the spooky side of celebrity," http://www.toronto.com/movies/article/525796 toronto.com (2007-08-10)
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
Oriana Fallaci (December 30, 1973), The Mystically Divine Shah of Iran (interview), Chicago Tribune
Interviews
“Saint Claire, the patron saint of the kick-me sign.”
Source: The Dead Girls' Dance