Nigel Lawson Quotes
March 11, 1932
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Nothing could be further from the truth than the claim that we have a choice between cutting tax and cutting unemployment, for the two go hand in hand.
Nigel Lawson— Speech in the House of Commons (Hansard, 18 March, 1986, Col. 182).
During the 1960s, and again in the 1970s, growth in manufacturing productivity in the United Kingdom was the lowest of all the seven major industrial countries in the world. During the 1980s, our annual rate of growth of output per head in manufacturing has been the highest of all the seven major industrial countries.
Nigel Lawson— Speech in the House of Commons (Hansard, 17 March, 1987, Col. 816).
If I really believed in Friedman's economic theory, then I'd be quite satisfied to spend the rest of my life with a garden hose shoved down my throat, being filled with custard by representatives of the people of China.
Nigel Lawson— Speech to the Conservative Party Conference (13 October, 1988).
