We cannot hope to achieve full employment and sustain it until we have mastered inflation.
Denis HealeyI've always criticised American policy when I've disagreed with it. Just as I've criticised British policy. I was violently anti-Suez and pro-American in 1956, just as I was violently anti-Soviet on the invasion of Hungary which took place at the same time.
Denis HealeyMrs Thatcher tells us she has given the French President a piece of her mind... not a gift I would receive with alacrity.
Denis HealeyThe difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.
Denis HealeySocialism 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.
Denis Healey