Creative Quotations from . . .
Denis Healey
(1917-2015) born on
Aug 30
English politician, photographer. He was secretary of state for defence in the Wilson governments of 1964--70, and Chancellor of the Exchequer (1974-9).
         
   
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F
That part of his speech was rather like being savaged by a dead sheep.

R
She approaches the problem of our country with all the one-dimensional subtlety of a comic strip.
A
Our second handicap was an election manifesto which Gerald Kaufman rightly described as `the longest suicide note in history'.
N
Follow the first rule of holes: If you are in one, stop digging.
K
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.
 


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: On being attacked in a parliamentary debate by Geoffrey Howe over his Budget proposals, House of Commons, 14 June, 1978
R: Referring to Margaret Thatcher. Speech, House of Commons, 22 May 1979.
A: Describing the Labour Party's New Hope fur Britain, published in 1983; "Time of My Life," 1989.
N: In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
K: In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997.
 

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