Nigel Lawson Quotes

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• To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.
• There has always been, and there always will be, an economic cycle.
• In Europe, where climate change absolutism is at its strongest, the quasi-religion of greenery in general and the climate change issue in particular have filled…
• Not only is the Kyoto approach to global warming wrong-headed, the climate change establishment's suppression of dissent and criticism is little short of a scandal.…
• I think that the ordinary bloke has an instinctive sense that it wouldn't be too bad if the weather warmed up.
• Hopelessly uneconomic on any substantial scale, since it requires a conventional power back-up for when the wind stops blowing, forests of wind turbines are rightly…
• Nothing could be further from the truth than the claim that we have a choice between cutting tax and cutting unemployment, for the two go…
• If I really believed in Friedman's economic theory, then I'd be quite satisfied to spend the rest of my life with a garden hose shoved…
• We already have a sabbatical system. It's called opposition, and I've had enough of it.

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