Nigel Lawson citations

Nigel Lawson, baron Lawson de Blaby, né à Hampstead le 11 mars 1932, est un homme politique britannique membre du Parti conservateur. Wikipedia  

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Nigel Lawson: Citations en anglais

“To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.”

Quoted in the Daily Mail (London, 26 March 1991), as cited in The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0231071949, ed. Robert Andrews, Columbia University Press (1993), p. 381

“No industry should remain under State ownership unless there is a positive and overwhelming case for it so doing. Inertia is not enough. As a nation, we simply cannot afford it.”

Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1981/nov/10/nationalised-industries in the House of Commons (10 November 1981)

“The Conservative Party has never believed that the business of government is the government of business.”

Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1981/nov/10/nationalised-industries in the House of Commons (10 November 1981)

“Economically and politically, Britain can get along with double digit unemployment.”

Interview with George F. Will (December 1984), quoted in William Keegan, Mr Lawson's Gamble (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1989), p. 140.

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