Proportional Quotes by Helen Suzman

That's my life in there. It would never be possible today to ask as many questions as I did.

— Helen Suzman

Tool of Communist agitators... it's really a joke, isn't it? Because, quite clearly, we are a party of real moderates. It just shows how…

— Helen Suzman

My own electorate, which I represented for 36 years as an anti-apartheid politician, had a considerable number of Jewish voters supporting me throughout my career.

— Helen Suzman

All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis.

— Helen Suzman

Sometimes I manage to get conditions alleviated, often not.

— Helen Suzman

It is the answers, not the questions, that are embarrassing.

— Helen Suzman

I don't think we will ever go the way of Zimbabwe, but people are concerned.

— Helen Suzman

When you teach, you learn.

— Helen Suzman

Debate is almost non-existent and no one is apparently accountable to anybody apart from their political party bosses. It is bad news for democracy…

— Helen Suzman

Perhaps the one comforting thought I got out of this whole disgusting affair was that over the years when the government was tapping my…

— Helen Suzman

It is not my questions that embarrass South Africa – it is your answers.

— Helen Suzman

The immediate present belongs to the extremists, but the future belongs to the moderates.

— Helen Suzman

It is increasingly hard for young white people to find jobs, and I can understand why white parents are worried about the future.

— Helen Suzman

This country is armed to the teeth, and none of these African states could begin to attack South Africa.

— Helen Suzman

For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn't mean that I would like to return to the old one.

— Helen Suzman