33 Quotes by Denis Healey

War inside countries is all too common.

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

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

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 would be a more dangerous place.

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

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

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 same time.

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

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