Geoffrey Howe quotes
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“There was no question of generation change or saying goodbye to the past or modernizing sloganising.”
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“The well-being of the British people and the health of our economy are far more important than any government's commitment to a particular strategy, but to change course now would be fatal to the whole counter-inflation strategy.”
-- Geoffrey HoweSource : "Chancellor determined not to change course in the fight against inflation". The Times, March 11, 1981.
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“It's one of the reasons [professional politicians] why people's confidence in the electoral system has declined so much. They have all become shadowy political creatures”
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“Margaret Thatcher was beyond argument a great Prime Minister. Her tragedy is that she may be remembered less for the brilliance of her many achievements than for the recklessness with which she later sought to impose her own increasingly uncompromising views.”
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“I personally feel very undecided whether it is better for a woman to stay and look after the home or go out to a job.”
-- Geoffrey Howe
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Source : "The Phantom of the Opera". Musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Charles Hart and Richard Stilgoe, 1986.
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“I had a feeling that my generation-and me, also-we were naked. We did not belong to anything.”
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“The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.”
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“Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.”
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