Occupation: Chancellor Of The Exchequer Birth: August 30, 1917 Death: October 3, 2015
Karl Marx himself preferred a glass of claret to the mug of tea affected by some of his recent converts..
If you’re in a hole, stop digging..
War inside countries is all too common..
I've always criticised American policy when I've disagreed with it. Just as I've criticised British policy. I was violently anti-Suez and pro-America….
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..
An aircraft which is used by wealthy people on their expense accounts, whose fares are subsidized by much poorer taxpayers..
Many of us in the West have come to feel that the development of technology in the military and economic fields has produced a single world in which ….
Mrs Thatcher tells us she has given the French President a piece of her mind... not a gift I would receive with alacrity..
Being attacked by him is like being savaged by a dead sheep..
The Americans have a very active presence and policy in every single part of the world and if we broke with them, we would lose any possibility of in….
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!.
I've got a happy marriage, which is the most important singular thing..
We cannot hope to achieve full employment and sustain it until we have mastered inflation..
Unless you understand the history of a situation, you can't ever hope to solve problems..
Nothing is more dangerous that the politician who uses politics as a surrogate for an unsatisfactory personal life..
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall..
Socialism to me is establishing social control of power in society, and where that differs from liberalism for example which aims at a similar situat….
Squeeze property speculators until the pips squeak..
Trying to create a sense of common interest does involve getting people actually to work together on common problems. It can't be created by law, tha….
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….
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….