Kenneth Baker Quotes

United Kingdom, Politician
November 3, 1934

Kenneth Wilfred Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking, CH, PC (born 3 November 1934) is a British politician, a former Conservative Member of Parliament and cabinet minister, including holding the offices of Home Secretary, Education Secretary and Conservative Party Chairman. He is a life member of the Tory Reform Group.

Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.

Kenneth Baker
- People
- Believe
- Success
So all the system was running down and collapsing. Mrs. Thatcher became the leader of the Conservative Party in February 1975, and she clearly wanted to strike out and do something different.

Kenneth Baker
- Different
- She
- Running

It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.

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- English
- Intelligent
Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes. That is not how it happened.

Kenneth Baker
By the end of the 1970s Britain was in a mess.

Kenneth Baker
He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.

Kenneth Baker
- Practice