"After listening to the debate on unemployment I can see a danger that Liberals lose to the Tories their claim to have new and sensible ideas and are left saying "Me too" to a Socialist conventional wisdom which is failing...The salient need of this country to produce more and much more efficiently hardly figured on the agenda."

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Source : The Sunday Times, September 19, 1976.

Jo Grimond

#Country Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Listening Quotes

“Women don't ask to be raped, but there are some that are asking to be motorboated”
“I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day I have left.”
“It takes a great man to make a great listener”
“If your version of pub food is microwaving a pie and some baked beans, then yeah, it's really complicated cooking. But if it's just about getting the best out of simple ingredients, then it's not.”
“May your character not be a writing upon the sand, but an inscription upon the rock!”
“Country music runs through my veins. I love it very much.”
“I love to just get in the booth. Put some tracks down. Iâ€™m basically Rihanna.”
“Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.”

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