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Lord Carrington

We spend our time bandying statistics about.

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Politicians don't make things—they occasionally have ideas and mostly see them frustrated. But at Cadbury-Schweppes, you can actually go into a factory and see something come out the other end, like a bottle of tonic water or a bar of chocolate. It is a completely different feeling.

Observing the difference between politics and working in the private sector:

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When you have an American Presidential election, everyone [in NATO] "goes to tea" for a while.

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Lord Carrington

Born: June 6, 1919
Died: July 9, 2018
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Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, Baron Carington of Upton, KG, GCMG, CH, MC, PC, DL, was a British Conservative politician and hereditary peer who served as defence secretary from 1970 to 1974, foreign secretary from 1979 to 1982, chairman of British General Electric Company from 1983 to 1984, and secretary general of NATO from 1984 to 1988. In the first government of Margaret Thatcher, he played a major role in negotiating the Lancaster House Agreement that ended the racial conflict in Rhodesia and enabled the creation of Zimbabwe.

LORD CARRINGTON

(Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, Baron Carington of Upton)