Edwina Currie Quotes

born 1946 England

Edwina Currie (née Cohen; on 13 October 1946) is a British writer, broadcaster and former politician who served as Conservative Member of Parliament for South Derbyshire from 1983 until 1997. She was a Junior Health Minister for two years, resigning in 1988 during the salmonella-in-eggs controversy.

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Most of the egg production in this country, sadly, is now affected with salmonella.

Good Christian people who wouldn't dream of misbehaving will not catch AIDS.

My message to the businessmen of this country when they go abroad on business is that there is only one thing above all they can take with them to stop them catching AIDS - and that is the wife...

The suggestion that the prime minister had been flirting with one of the senior women cabinet ministers made me laugh every time I saw it, and I thought, "if you only knew!" Perhaps they should have pushed it a bit harder.

Best Ever Spitting Image TV documentary (2006)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Edwina Currie (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.