Nigel Lawson Quotes
March 11, 1932
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The successful sale of British Telecom...reveals a vast and untapped yearning among ordinary people for a direct stake in the ownership of British enterprise. Investment in shares has begun to take its place, with ownership of a home and either a bank or building society deposit, as a way for ordinary people to participate in enterprise and wealth creation. We are seeing the birth of people's capitalism.
Nigel Lawson— On the privatisation of BT (November 1984).
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).
