Denis Healey Quotes
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NATO's nuclear strategy is an essential part of that balance between East and West. To threaten to upset it by refusing to let America base any of her nuclear weapons in Britain would make war more likely, not less likely.
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I would fight to change the policy before the General Election. If I failed then I wouldn't accept office in a Labour Government.
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No Government can produce an economic miracle. An economic miracle depends on people on the shop floor, in the board room, in the sales office, working a bit harder and more efficiently than they have worked in the past.
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He must be out of his tiny Chinese mind.
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We are all agreed on a massive extension of public ownership...We are all agreed on establishing comprehensive planning control over the 100 or so largest companies in Britain. We are all agreed on the need for a national enterprise board to organise and extend public ownership in the profitable manufacturing industries.
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Speech in Paris (12 November 1982).
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The alternative to getting help from the IMF would be economic policies so savage I think they would produce riots in the streets, an immediate fall in living standards and unemployment of three million.
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Explaining Labour's defeat in the 1983 election in an interview in Marxism Today (April 1986)
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Faced with the difficulties of unilateral reflation some socialists are tempted to seek salvation through trade restrictions or competitive devaluation. But such beggar-my-neighbour policies, if pursued on the scale required...are more likely to lead to a trade and currency war than to insulate their sponsors from the recession in the outside world.
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The Tribune (28 March 1986).