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上傳日期：2007-09-21
A heavily edited version of Margaret Thatcher's statement of 30 October 1990 to the House of Commons on the European Council meeting at Rome held on 27/28 October.

The Council was meant to discuss the Uruguay Round on General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade which was due to end in a few months but for which the EC had not developed a policy (alone out of the trading blocs). However the Italian Prime Minister, Giulio Andreotti, decided that the Council would refuse to discuss the GATT and instead push for the final stage in European Economic and Monetary Union in an attempt to get Thatcher to either agree or to force her to say "No" and thereby bring about her downfall by Europhile members of her party. Thatcher's hostility to a federal Europe led to Geoffrey Howe resigning from the Government on 1 November and to his fellow federalist Michael Heseltine's bid for the Tory leadership which brought down Thatcher on 22 November.

As Howe later said: "I wanted to change the policies, not the leader. But if that meant the leader had to go, then so it had to be". After the Rome Council a French official was asked whether it had failed. He answered: "On the contrary, the Council had been an outstanding success, since it had re-established an eleven-to-one situation in the Community and destabilised Thatcher at home".

Includes Eurosceptic interventions by Norman Tebbit (Con.), David Owen (Ind.), Ron Leighton (Lab.), Tony Favell (Con.), and Tony Benn (Lab.).

Margaret Thatcher: I may be persueded to surrender the hat. The pearls, however, are absolutely non-negotiable. That's the tone that we want to strike.

上傳日期：2011-08-04
A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher (Meryl Streep), the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power.

Directed by: Phyllida Lloyd

Starring:
Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Alexandra Roach, Olivia Colman and Anthony Head

In theaters: December 16th, 2011

Margaret Thatcher: Watch your thoughts for they become words. Watch your words for they become actions. Watch your actions for they become...habits. Watch your habits, for they become your character. And watch your character, for it becomes your destiny! What we think we become. My father always said that... and I think I am fine.

Margaret Thatcher: It's time to get up! It's time go to work! It's time to put the great, back into Great Britain!

Margaret Thatcher: A crime is a crime is a crime.

Margaret: I will never be one of those women who stay silent on the arm of her husband. One's life must matter, Dennis.
Denis Thatcher: That's why I want to marry you, my dear.

Margaret Thatcher: With all due respect, sir, I have done battle every single day of my life and many men have underestimated me before. This lot seem bound to do the same, but they will rue the day.

Gordon Reece: That hat has got to go - and the pearls. But the main thing is your voice. It's too high and it has no authority.
Margaret Thatcher: I may be persueded to surrender the hat. The pearls, however, are absolutely non-negotiable. That's the tone that we want to strike.

Margaret Thatcher: I've decided to run.
Denis Thatcher: Are you saying that you want to be prime minister?!
Margaret Thatcher: This is my duty, and my...
Denis Thatcher: It's ambition that's got you this far - ambition! And the rest of us, me, the children, we can all go to hell!

Politician: Methinks the right honorable lady doth screech too much! If she wants us to take her seriously, she must learn to calm down!

Margaret Thatcher: If the right honorable gentlemen could perhaps attend more closely to what I'm saying, rather than how I'm saying it, he may receive a valuable education in spite of himself!

Margaret Thatcher: Gentlemen, if we don’t cut spending we will be bankrupt. Yes, the medicine is harsh, but the patient requires it in order to live. Should we withhold the medicine? No. We are not wrong. We did not seek election and win in order to manage the decline of a great nation.