& Margaret Roberts: I’ve got a place at Oxford!
Alfred Roberts: Don’t let me down Margaret.
& — So was your father a political man, too, Miss Roberts?
Margaret: Oh, yes, to his core. And Mayor of Grantham.
— And a grocer as well!
Margaret: Yes.
— And did you help, in the... shop?
Margaret: Oh, yes. It was a family business.
— ’A very good starting point for the political life,’ I’m sure.
Margaret: That and a degree from Oxford.
& Margaret Thatcher: Whisky.
& Margaret: Yes, we help people, of course we help people. But for those that can do... they must just get up and do. And if something’s wrong, they shouldn’t just whine about it... They should get in there and DO something about it, change things.
& Margaret: It used to be about trying to do something. Now it’s about trying to be someone.
& Denis Thatcher: You deserve a safe seat. But it does not come unless you learn to play the game a little.
Margaret: What game?
Denis: You are a grocer’s daughter-
Margaret: And proud of being.
Denis: ...in their eyes. A single grocer’s daughter. But if you were to become the wife of a moderately successful businessman... You’d get to parliament, and I’d get to be the happiest man in... in wherever they select you. Margaret, will you marry me?
& Alfred Roberts: We on this island are strong. We’re self-reliant. Napoleon called us a nation of shopkeepers. He meant it as an insult but to me it’s a compliment. That’s why he couldn’t beat us, and that’s why Hitler can’t beat us. We Conservatives believe in giving people the freedom and opportunity to... fulfill their own potential, especially the young. There’s no good in pretending we’re all equal... we’re not all the same, never have been, never will be. We should encourage our children to aspire to achieve more than we have... for our children today will be the leaders of tomorrow.
& Margaret: The only thing you should remember is that everyone else is either reckless* or inept*. And often both. One must be brave if one is to take the wheel...
& Margaret: Prime Minister?! Oh, no. Oh, no-no-no. In Britain? There will be no female Prime Minister here, not in my lifetime. No. And I told Airey, I don’t expect to win the leadership, but I... am going to run. Just to shake up the party.
Airey Neave: Respectfully, Margaret, I disagree. If you want to change this party, lead it. If you want to change the country, lead it.
& Margaret Thatcher: The Trade Union Movement was founded to protect workers. Now it persecutes them. It stops them from working. It is killing jobs and it is bringing this country to its knees. I say ’enough’. It’s time to get up. It’s time to go to work. It’s time to put the Great back into Great Britain!
& Margaret: People don’t ’think’ any more. They ’feel’. ’How are you feeling?’ ’Oh I don’t feel comfortable with that’ ’Oh, I’m so sorry but we, the group were feeling...’ D’you know, one of the great problems of our age... is that we are governed by people who care... more about feelings than thoughts and ideas.
Doctor: Now thoughts and ideas. That interests me.
Margaret: Ask me what I am thinking...
Doctor: What are you thinking, Margaret?
Margaret: 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: Denis! Denis... there you are? Are you alright?
Denis: My shoes...
& Margaret: I was hoping to see you. Yes... Oh... No, that’s fine. Really, darling. That’s fine. Of course... another time.
& Margaret Thatcher: Gentlemen, the Argentinian Junta... which is a fascist gang... has invaded our sovereign territory. This cannot be tolerated. May I make plain my negotiating position. I will not negotiate with criminals or thugs. The Falkland islands belong to Britain, and I want them back.
& — The U.S. Secretary of State has arrived, Prime Minister.
Alexander Haig: So you are proposing to go to war over these islands. They’re thousands of miles away, a handful of citizens, politically and economically insignificant, if you’ll excuse me.
Margaret Thatcher: Just like Hawaii... I imagine.
& Admiral: I advise that we engage them: hit the Belgrano as a warning to the others. Send them all back to port.
Foreign Secretary: It’ll play badly internationally. We’ll be seen as aggressors.
Admiral: This will be an escalation, Prime Minister.
Margaret Thatcher: If there is to be an escalation, it’s better that we start it.
Head of State: It is steaming away, Prime Minister.
Margaret Thatcher: ........... Sink it.
& Foreign Secretary: President Reagan and President Bellaunde of Peru have some new proposals for the peace plan...
Margaret Thatcher: The peace plan? There will be no appeasement. This is a war! A war they started and by God, we will finish it.
& Lord President: The point is, Prime Minister, I don’t think we can sell the idea of a tax that asks everyone to pay the same.
Margaret Thatcher: Our policies may be unpopular, but they are the right policies.
Lord President: Prime Minister, I just don’t think we can ask the poorest of the poor... to pay the same amount of tax as a multi-millionaire.
Margaret Thatcher: There it is again! Why not?
Lord President: Because... Because people... on the whole... think that the tax is manifestly unfair.
Margaret Thatcher: Nonsense. Arrant* nonsense. This is a simple proposition. In you live in this country, you must pay for the privilege... something, anything! If you pay nothing, you care nothing. What do you care where you throw your rubbish? Your council estate is a mess, your town, graffiti, what do you care? It’s not your problem, it’s somebody else’s problem... it’s the government’s problem!
& Margaret Thatcher: Some of you, is that you haven’t got the courage for this fight. You haven’t had to fight hard for anything. It’s all been given to you... and you feel guilty about it! Well, may I say, on behalf of all those who have had to fight their way up, and who don’t feel guilty about it... we resent those slackers* who take, take, take... and contribute nothing to the community!
And I see the same thing, the same cowardice... in our fight within the European Union. Cowardice. For the sovereignty of Britain the integrity of the pound! Some of you want to make concessions. I hear some of you... agree with the latest French proposals. Well, why don’t you get on a boat to Calais? Yes, why don’t you put on a beret, and pay 85% of your income to the French government!
& Margaret Thatcher: What is that? Is that the timetable? I haven’t seen that. May I see it?
Lord President: Here it is, Prime Minister. Of course.
Margaret Thatcher: The wording is sloppy here... and here.
Lord President: If you say so.
Margaret Thatcher: I do say so.
Lord President: It’s merely a first draft...
Margaret Thatcher: This is ridiculous. There are two “T’s” in “committee”! Two “T’s”. This is shameful. Shameful! I can’t even rely on you for a simple timetable! Are you unwell?.. Yes. You are unwell.
& Margaret: Men! Don’t they know if you take the tough decisions... Yes, people will hate you today, but they’ll thank you for generations.
Denis: Or forget you entirely and chuck you out with the rubbish!
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reckless — безответственный
inept — неспособный
Arrant — отъявленный; сущий; настоящий
slackers — бездельники
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