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Thatcher’s best quotes April 9, 2013 Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher—who died Monday from a stroke aged 87—retired from public engagements in 2002 following a series of small strokes, and was only occasionally seen in public after that. 前英国首相撒切尔夫人周一因中风去世，终年87岁。在发生多次轻微中风之后，她于2002年退出公众视线，此后只是偶尔公开露面。 Here are memorable quotes from her public life: 以下是她在公开场合的一些令人难忘的言论： AFP/Getty Images Margaret Thatcher greeting people who gathered to see her in Moscow, during her official visit to the USSR in March 1987. 1987年3月，撒切尔夫人在对苏联进行正式访问期间向围观的莫斯科民众致意。If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. -- May 20, 1965, speech to National Union of Townswomens Guilds Conference. 如果你想要空谈，问男人；如果你想要成事，问女人。──在全国城市妇女公会联盟会议上的演讲，1965年5月20日There are dangers in consensus: it could be an attempt to satisfy people holding no particular views about anything.…No great party can survive except on the basis of firm beliefs about what it wants to do. -- Oct. 10, 1968, Conservative Party conference. 共识中存在种种危机：共识可能是为了迎合对任何事都没有具体看法的人……除非基于对使命的坚定信念，否则不会有伟大的政党──保守党大会，1968年10月10日 I dont think there will be a woman Prime Minister in my lifetime. -- TV interview on March 5, 1973. 在我的有生之年，没有女性会成为首相──电视采访，1973年3月5日Ladies and gentlemen, I stand before you tonight in my red chiffon evening gown, my face softly made up, my fair hair gently waved…the Iron Lady of the Western World. Me? A Cold War warrior? Well, yes—if that is how they wish to interpret my defense of values of freedoms fundamental to our way of life. -- Jan. 31, 1976. 女士们、先生们，今晚， 我身着红色雪纺绸晚装、略施粉黛、秀发轻卷，站在你们面前……西方世界的铁娘子。是我吗？冷战斗士？好吧，是我，如果他们想这样解读我对生活最根本的自由价值的捍卫。──1976年1月31日 The Russians are bent on world dominance, and they are rapidly acquiring the means to become the most powerful imperial nation the world has seen. -- From the speech that led to her being dubbed The Iron Lady, Jan. 19, 1976. 俄罗斯人决心要统治世界，他们正迅速捞取使其成为世界上最强大帝国的资本。──摘自1976年1月19日的一篇演讲，正是该演讲为她引来了“铁娘子”的称号。To those waiting w