Norman Tebbit Short Quotes

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I haven't got a racist bone in my little finger.

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I'm not sure. He ought to. Things would work better.

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The BBC is another part of the destruction of Great Britain.

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I'm a hawk—but no kamikaze. And Jim's a dove—but he's not chicken.

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I don't think he's a liar, just a fantasist. He says whatever he likes, and then he believes it.

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Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.

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[My father] did not riot. He got on his bike and looked for work. And he kept on looking till he found it.

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I grew up in the Thirties with our unemployed father. He did not riot, he got on his bike and looked for work.

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[The poll tax] was a classic case of a good idea being entrusted to Chris Patten and becoming a terrible failure.

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I grew up in the 30s with an unemployed father. He didn't riot; he got on his bike and looked for work and he kept looking 'til he found it.

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It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.

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I suspect that the only thing that will take Articles Two and Three out of the Irish Constitution is when the bombs begin to blow in Dublin in the way that they have been in Belfast and in London.

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