Denis Healey Quotes
[Describing Margaret Thatcher:] She approaches the problems of our country with all the one-dimensional subtlety of a comic strip.
Denis Healey, British Minister of Defense (Labour), Chancellor of the Exchequer, Debate, House of Commons, May 22, 1979
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During the 1956 Suez crisis, President Eisenhower, distressed at the British invasion of Egypt, phoned British Prime Minister Anthony Eden. Although he didn't realize it, Eisenhower was actually addressing Eden's press secretary:
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Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey CH, MBE, PC, FRSL was a British Labour Party politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to 1979 and as Secretary of State for Defence from 1964 to 1970; he remains the longest-serving Defence Secretary to date. He was a Member of Parliament from 1952 to 1992, and was Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1980 to 1983. To the public at large, Healey became well known for his bushy eyebrows, his avuncular manner and his creative turns of phrase.
