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…

- Denis Healey

It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.

- Denis Healey

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.

- Denis Healey

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…

- Denis Healey

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…

- Denis Healey

Unless you understand the history of a situation, you can't ever hope to solve problems.

- Denis Healey

Squeeze property speculators until the pips squeak.

- Denis Healey

Nothing is more dangerous that the politician who uses politics as a surrogate for an unsatisfactory personal life.

- Denis Healey

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…

- Denis Healey