Shirley Williams Quotes

#1. The British civil service ... is a beautifully designed and effective braking mechanism.

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#2. We really shouldn't be running education like a supermarket where you compare prices.

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#3. We have to say now we think the character of the party has changed so far it will take something very exceptional, something really out of the ordinary line to make us be convinced there's a chance of winning back the party.

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#4. If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong.

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#5. There are hazards in anything one does but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.

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#6. The saddest illusion of the revolutionary is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings.

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#7. It would be excellent if he is prepared to listen to other points of view.

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#8. The danger of any new party at a time of disillusion with the old parties, is that it becomes all things to all men.

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#9. We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.

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#10. I am not interested in a third party. I do not believe it has any future.

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#11. It is our goal to provide full public access to as many files as we possibly can.

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#12. No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child.

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#13. Society, while willing to make room for women, is not willing to make changes for them.

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#14. The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.

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