Harold Macmillan Quotes
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To Nikita Khrushchev showing his dissatisfaction by banging his shoe on the desk:
Perhaps we could have a translation, I could not quite follow.Harold Macmillan
To Rab Butler about a stack of papers:
Macmillan: What are those?
Butler: Policies.
Macmillan: Oh, I beg you, not policies. They come back to haunt you. Give them broad sunlit uplands, dear boy.
Harold Macmillan
When asked to identify the greatest challenge for a statesman:
Events, my dear boy, events.Harold Macmillan
We…are Greeks in this American empire…We must run the Allied Forces HQ as the Greeks ran the operations of the Emperor Claudius.
To Richard crossman in 1944
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