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Norman Tebbit Quotes

1931–2025 England

Norman Beresford Tebbit, Baron Tebbit CH PC (29 March 1931 – 7 July 2025) was a British politician and life peer. A member of the Conservative Party, he served in the Cabinet from 1981 to 1987 as Secretary of State for Employment (1981–1983), Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (1983–1985), and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Chairman of the Conservative Party (1985–1987).

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I grew up in the 30s with an unemployed father. He didn't riot; he got on his bike and looked for work and he kept looking 'til he found it.

A typical piece of BBC anti-Tory propaganda.

He (John Major) has the mulishness of a weak man with stupidity.

I haven't got a racist bone in my little finger.

I'm a hawk—but no kamikaze. And Jim's a dove—but he's not chicken.

I’m not sure. He ought to. Things would work better.

The BBC is another part of the destruction of Great Britain.

I don't think he's a liar, just a fantasist. He says whatever he likes, and then he believes it.

I suspect that the only thing that will take Articles Two and Three out of the Irish Constitution is when the bombs begin to blow in Dublin in the way that they have been in Belfast and in London.

[The poll tax] was a classic case of a good idea being entrusted to Chris Patten and becoming a terrible failure.

Go away and have another heart attack!

If they (Muslim women) wish to cover their faces and isolate themselves from the rest of the community and so thoroughly reject our culture then I cannot imagine why they want to be here at all. Perhaps they should just push off back to their own countries.

If we give in to the terrorists we will have more skyjacking, and not merely from the Arabs...Whatever happenes to these hostages—and I could easily have been one of them—if we give in even more people will be taken hostage and more lives will be laid at risk.

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