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Nigel Lawson Quotes

1932–2023 England

Nigel Lawson, Baron Lawson of Blaby PC (11 March 1932 – 3 April 2023) was a British politician. Originally a financial journalist, he was editor of The Spectator from 1966 to 1970.

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Also known as: Lawson, Nigel

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The National Health Service is the closest thing the English have to a religion, with those who practice in it regarding themselves as a priesthood.

The View from No. 11: Memoirs of a Tory Radical (1992)

The Conservative Party has never believed that the business of government is the government of business.

Economically and politically, Britain can get along with double digit unemployment.

No industry should remain under State ownership unless there is a positive and overwhelming case for it so doing. Inertia is not enough. As a nation, we simply cannot afford it.

To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

The policy that we have been pursuing has already brought economic success. This country is now experiencing an economic miracle, comparable in significance to that previously enjoyed by West Germany and still enjoyed by Japan.

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