Margaret Thatcher, while leader of the opposition, is claimed to have remarked, "Some chancellors are micro economic, some chancellors are fiscal, this one"s just plain cheap". No wonder she was dubbed the "Iron Lady" by the Soviets. A name that stuck and I suspect she relishes. But that is democracy at it's best. Try saying that about a military dictator or his cronies and you will be erased from history as well. In the democratic system, Baroness Thatcher, as she is today, rose to become the first lady British Prime Minister and the longest serving Prime Minister in 100 years....
democracy, less economic disparity and more tolerance, but most of all we need politicians like Thatcher who state, as she did when she was elected to lead the party, "I am not a consensus politician, I am a conviction politician". And the people of the world must realise, as Bill Clinton puts it so well, "somewhere along the way, we finally come to understand that our life is more than all these boxes we"re in. And that if we can"t reach beyond that, we"ll never have a fuller life."

And he was talking of each one of us.