Denis Healey: Economics

Denis Healey was British Labour Party politician and Life peer. Explore interesting quotes on economics.

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“No Government can produce an economic miracle. An economic miracle depends on people on the shop floor, in the board room, in the sales office, working a bit harder and more efficiently than they have worked in the past.”

On BBC TV (15 December 1976).
1970s

“By the end of next year, we really shall be on our way to that so-called economic miracle we need.”

In an Ministerial broadcast on the Budget (6 April 1976).
1970s

“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…”

On BBC Television's Panorama programme (22 January, 1968).
1960s

“The alternative to getting help from the IMF would be economic policies so savage I think they would produce riots in the streets, an immediate fall in living standards and unemployment of three million.”

On ITN's News at Ten (29 September 1976).
1970s

“If we can keep our heads—and our nerve—the long-awaited economic miracle is in our grasp. Britain can achieve in the Seventies what Germany and France achieved in the Fifties and Sixties.”

The Sunday Telegraph (4 July 1976).
1970s