33 Quotes by Denis Healey

Trying to create a sense of common interest does involve getting people actually to work together on common problems. It can't be created by law, that's why I disagree with the liberal approach becuase it's essentially a lawyer's approach.

Many of us in the West have come to feel that the development of technology in the military and economic fields has produced a single world in which the central problems, both military and economic, are going to require co-operation rather than continued confrontation and competition.

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

Socialism to me is establishing social control of power in society, and where that differs from liberalism for example which aims at a similar situation in some respects, is we think you can only establish control over power by changing the structure and distribution of power, notably economic power.

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

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 a blowlamp.

She approaches the problem of our country with all the one-dimensional subtlety of a comic strip.

It will squeeze the rich until the pips squeak.

Squeeze the rich until the pips squeak.