Edwina Currie Quotes

#1. All the poison that my Hon. friend (Edwina Currie) suggests I would happily take rather than be spread eagled on the floor of the House by her.

Nicholas Fairbairn

#2. You might not feel anything for me, but I feel everything for you.

Kerry Lonsdale

#3. The September 11 attacks were the greatest work of art in the cosmos ... compared to that, we composers are nothing

Karlheinz Stockhausen

#4. I won't claim the workhouses didn't have their problems, but they were set up by people who cared.

Edwina Currie

#5. The Labour Party is being led by a woman but she has not been elected to anything. She is the lady who makes the breakfast in the Kinnock household.

Edwina Currie

#6. Good Christian people who wouldn't dream of misbehaving will not catch AIDS.

Edwina Currie

#7. One man's priority is another man's extravagence.

Edwina Currie

#8. Republicans in Congress have two choices here: They can act responsibly and pay America's bills, or they can act irresponsibly and put America through another economic crisis. But they will not collect a ransom in exchange for not crashing the American economy

Barack Obama

#9. Businessmen should stand or fall on their own two feet.

Edwina Currie

#10. There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Maya Angelou

#11. If someone asks for a soft drink at a party, we no longer think he is a wimp.

Edwina Currie

#12. The suggestion that the prime minister had been flirting with one of the senior women cabinet ministers made me laugh every time I saw it, and I thought, "if you only knew!" Perhaps they should have pushed it a bit harder.

Edwina Currie

#13. My message to businessmen of this country when they go abroad on business is that there is one thing above all they can take with them to stop them catching AIDS, and that is the wife.

Edwina Currie

#14. The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.

Edwina Currie

#15. Back to Basics was absolute humbug, wasn't it?

Edwina Currie

#16. There was nothing to see, nothing to distract me from succumbing to my fears, and the longer I kept my eyes shut, the more terribly I saw my fears wanted me to see.

Paul Auster

#17. Margaret Thatcher drove us like there was no tomorrow. But I think there is a genuine feeling now that this macho, workaholic, earn lots of money way of life has run its course. There has been a shift in attitude. People are looking for a more balanced approach.

Edwina Currie

#18. Don't look for society to give you permission to be yourself.

Steve Maraboli

#19. There's no smoke without mud being flung around.

Edwina Currie

#20. Where my tastes in music are concerned, I'm a real maximalist.

James Levine

#21. Small, short-sighted, blonde, barbed - she reminds me of a bright little hedgehog.

Edwina Currie

#22. I didn't know a thing about Oxford and had never been to Britain. My father suggested it because in 1939 he had been about to take up a place at Wadham College, but the war broke out, and he joined the Army instead.

Tariq Ali