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Denis Healey

(1917–2015) Politician United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

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Denis Healey was a politician from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, best known for The time of my life.

Quick Facts About Denis Healey

Born: August 30, 1917
Died: October 3, 2015
Nationality: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Profession: Politician
Notable works: The time of my life
Spouse: Edna Healey

About Denis Healey

Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey was a British Labour Party politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to 1979 and as Secretary of State for Defence from 1964 to 1970; he remains the longest-serving Defence Secretary to date. He was a Member of Parliament from 1952 to 1992, and was Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1980 to 1983. To the public at large, Healey became well known for his bushy eyebrows, his avuncular manner and his creative turns of phrase.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Companion of Honour Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature Orden wider den tierischen Ernst life peer Member of the Order of the British Empire

Quotes by Denis Healey

I often compare Margaret Thatcher with Florence Nightingale. She stalks through the wards of our hospitals as a lady with a lamp.…

Compare

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“The Prime Minister says that she has given the French President a piece of her mind – this is not a gift…

Margaret thatcher

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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…

British

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First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!

Digging

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I've got a happy marriage, which is the most important singular thing.

Happiness

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War inside countries is all too common.

Common

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An aircraft which is used by wealthy people on their expense accounts, whose fares are subsidized by much poorer taxpayers.

Accounts

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Socialism to me is establishing social control of power in society, and where that differs from liberalism for example which aims at…

Aim

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Squeeze property speculators until the pips squeak.

Rich

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Being attacked by him is like being savaged by a dead sheep.

Inspirational

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Nothing is more dangerous that the politician who uses politics as a surrogate for an unsatisfactory personal life.

Dangerous

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Karl Marx himself preferred a glass of claret to the mug of tea affected by some of his recent converts.

Affected

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Mrs Thatcher tells us she has given the French President a piece of her mind... not a gift I would receive with…

Alacrity

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The right hon. Gentleman will be known for ever as the only Chancellor in the post-war period who brought this country to…

Bankruptcy

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Many of us in the West have come to feel that the development of technology in the military and economic fields has…

Competition

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World events do not occur by accident. They are made to happen, whether it is to do with national issues or commerce;…

Accidents

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Trying to create a sense of common interest does involve getting people actually to work together on common problems. It can't be…

Approach

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Squeeze the rich until the pips squeak

Funny

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“Healey’s First Law Of Holes: When in one, stop digging.”

Dicta

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We cannot hope to achieve full employment and sustain it until we have mastered inflation.

Achieve

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The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.

Avoidance

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The Americans have a very active presence and policy in every single part of the world and if we broke with them,…

Active

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Unless you understand the history of a situation, you can't ever hope to solve problems.

History

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It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.

Digging

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If you’re in a hole, stop digging.

Digging

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