Denis Healey quotes
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“The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.”
-- Denis HealeySource : "Holes in the Net". www.economist.com. May 04, 2006.
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“World events do not occur by accident. They are made to happen, whether it is to do with national issues or commerce; and most of them are staged and managed by those who hold the purse strings.”
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“I often compare Margaret Thatcher with Florence Nightingale. She stalks through the wards of our hospitals as a lady with a lamp. Unfortunately, it's a blowlamp.”
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“An aircraft which is used by wealthy people on their expense accounts, whose fares are subsidized by much poorer taxpayers.”
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“It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.”
-- Denis HealeySource : "The old bruiser who remained the boy next door". Interview with William Keegan, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2006.
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“Nothing is more dangerous that the politician who uses politics as a surrogate for an unsatisfactory personal life.”
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“We cannot hope to achieve full employment and sustain it until we have mastered inflation.”
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“Being attacked by him is like being savaged by a dead sheep.”
-- Denis HealeySource : On being criticized by Sir Geoffrey Howe in the House of Commons, 'Hansard' 14 June 1978, col. 1027
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“First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!”
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“The right hon. Gentleman will be known for ever as the only Chancellor in the post-war period who brought this country to the brink of bankruptcy.”
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