Denis Healey quotes

" The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall. " # Taxes and Taxation # Prison # Books - Reading

" I think the Services can be rightly very upset at the continuous series of defence reviews which the Government has been forced by economic circumstances—and maybe economic mistakes too—to carry out... " # Critics and Criticism # Mistakes # Government

" On BBC Television's Panorama programme (22 January, 1968). " # Computers

" Once we cut defence expenditure to the extent where our security is imperilled, we have no houses, we have no hospitals, we have no schools. We have a heap of cinders. " # Fear # Hospitals # Security

" Speech in the House of Commons (Hansard, 5 March, 1969, Col. 551). " # Speech

" We are all agreed on a massive extension of public ownership. " # Politicians and Politics # War # Revolutions and Revolutionaries

" Speech in York (2 June, 1973). " # Cities and City Life

" We shall increase income tax on the better off so that we can help the hundreds of thousands of families now tangled helplessly in the poverty trap by raising the tax threshold and introducing reduced rates of tax for those at the bottom of the ladder. I warn you, there are going to be howls of anguish from the rich. But before you cheer too loudly let me warn you that a lot of you will pay extra taxes too. " # Taxes and Taxation # Success # Poverty and The Poor

" Speech to the Labour Party Conference at Blackpool (1 October, 1973). " # Stock Market # Politicians and Politics # Favors

" It has never been my nature, I regret to admit to the House, to turn the other cheek. " # Regret # Love # Age and Aging