Quotes about Rab Butler

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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

Of Rab Butler:

He seemed like a benign and decent beached whale washed up on the harder shores of modern Conservatism.