List of Denis Healey Quotes

We Cannot Hope To Achieve Full Employment And Sustain It Until We Have Mastered Inflation.

War Inside Countries Is All Too Common.

First Law On Holes - When You're In One, Stop Digging!

If You’re In A Hole, Stop Digging.

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-american In 1956, Just As I Was Violently Anti-soviet On The Invasion Of Hungary Which Took Place At The Same Time.

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.

An Aircraft Which Is Used By Wealthy People On Their Expense Accounts, Whose Fares Are Subsidized By Much Poorer Taxpayers.

Karl Marx Himself Preferred A Glass Of Claret To The Mug Of Tea Affected By Some Of His Recent Converts.

Mrs Thatcher Tells Us She Has Given The French President A Piece Of Her Mind... Not A Gift I Would Receive With Alacrity.

I've Got A Happy Marriage, Which Is The Most Important Singular Thing.

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.

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.