Liam Fox famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The era of nuclear terrorism has arrived.
-- Liam Fox

#Nuclear #Eras #Terrorism
We are not in Afghanistan for the sake of the education policy in a broken 13th-century country. We are there so the people of Britain and our global interests are not threatened.
-- Liam Fox

#Broken Heart #Country #People
But while we can never predict where events will take us or the unavoidable bills we will have to pay as a consequence, we must confront the ghastly truth of Labour's legacy.
-- Liam Fox

#Events #Legacy #Pay
New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known. Make no mistake, Labour's economic policies were a national security liability.
-- Liam Fox

#Mistake #Government #Self
You either believe in Europe at any price: in other words we have to be in Europe at any price because you can't survive without it, or you don't. If you don't it tends to suggest there is a price which you are not willing to pay.
-- Liam Fox

#Believe #Europe #Pay
People realise that his promise [Tony Blair's] to 'save the NHS' was just talk.
-- Liam Fox

#Nhs #People #Promise
We are not leaving the EU, we are rejoining the rest of the world.
-- Liam Fox

#Leaving #World #Rejoining
We must end the iniquitous multi-taxing of the same money. It is not right to tax people's incomes, then their savings on that income, to tax the movement of assets through capital gains tax, stamp duty and tax them again through inheritance tax if they have the audacity to die.
-- Liam Fox

#People #Inheritance #Movement
For those of us on that Leave side there is a natural credibility with those voters.
-- Liam Fox

#Voters #Sides #Natural
I accept that it was a mistake to allow distinctions to be blurred between my professional responsibilities and my personal loyalties to a friend. Mr Speaker, I am sorry for this. I have apologised to the Prime Minister, to the public, and, at the first opportunity available, to the House.
-- Liam Fox

#Loyalty #Sorry #Mistake
I have decided to give my support to Theresa May. I intend to work closely with her, to campaign for her and I'm sure she'll be a very fine prime minister of this country.
-- Liam Fox

#Country #Giving #Support
I felt it was vital to stress the importance of national security in this debate and the need for a clear path to our exit from the European Union. I hope I have achieved both these objectives.
-- Liam Fox

#Stress #Needs #Unions
I think it's much harder for anybody who voted Remain to have credibility amongst the voters who voted to leave in terms of leading the country. It's not impossible, but it's much harder.
-- Liam Fox

#Country #Thinking #Voters
Ed Balls is like a drunk trying to drink his way out of alcoholism.
-- Liam Fox

#Drunk #Trying #Balls
I'm a very good friend of Stephen Crabb, I had great fun campaigning with Boris Johnson on the winning side, I have great experience working with Theresa May in government on national security. I respect all of them and I hope that's very much the tone.
-- Liam Fox

#Fun #Good Friend #Winning

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