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… — Denis Healey Copy Share Image
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… — Denis Healey Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The Prime Minister says that she has given the French President a piece of her mind – this is not a gift I would… — Denis Healey Copy Share Image
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,… — Denis Healey Copy Share Image
I've got a happy marriage, which is the most important singular thing. — Denis Healey Copy Share Image
An aircraft which is used by wealthy people on their expense accounts, whose fares are subsidized by much poorer taxpayers. — Denis Healey Copy Share Image
Socialism to me is establishing social control of power in society, and where that differs from liberalism for example which aims at a similar… — Denis Healey Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dangerous that the politician who uses politics as a surrogate for an unsatisfactory personal life. — Denis Healey Copy Share Image
Karl Marx himself preferred a glass of claret to the mug of tea affected by some of his recent converts. — Denis Healey Copy Share Image