Denis Healey
Denis Healey
Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey, CH MBE PC FRSLwas a British Labour Party politician who served as Secretary of State for Defence from 1964 to 1970, Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to 1979 and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1980 to 1983...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth30 August 1917
sarcastic sheep
Being attacked by him is like being savaged by a dead sheep.
rich
Squeeze the rich until the pips squeak
funny life law
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!
glasses tea mug
Karl Marx himself preferred a glass of claret to the mug of tea affected by some of his recent converts.
would-be world influence
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 influencing them. They would go in for global unilateralism, and the world would be a more dangerous place.
country war gentleman
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.
problem situation solve
Unless you understand the history of a situation, you can't ever hope to solve problems.
military technology competition
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 the central problems, both military and economic, are going to require co-operation rather than continued confrontation and competition.
important happy-marriage
I've got a happy marriage, which is the most important singular thing.
thinking distribution-of-power example
Socialism to me is establishing social control of power in society, and where that differs from liberalism for example which aims at a similar situation in some respects, is we think you can only establish control over power by changing the structure and distribution of power, notably economic power.
mind president pieces
Mrs Thatcher tells us she has given the French President a piece of her mind... not a gift I would receive with alacrity.
digging-a-hole law firsts
It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.
florence-nightingale lamps stalking
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.
issues world purses
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.