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We are spending 6 per cent more than we are earning... You can also bankrupt a nation by excessive wage demands... That is why I said that it is better to have a lower standard of life for all workers than for some of them to be unemployed.

— Denis Healey

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So long as the Soviet Union has nuclear weapons there have to be nuclear weapons somewhere in NATO to deter them from using them.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.

It has never been my nature, I regret to admit to the House, to turn the other cheek.

He must be out of his tiny Chinese mind.

The fact is that she [Margaret Thatcher] emerged in this debate as La Pasionaria of privilege.

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