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Kenneth Baker
English
Politician
About the author
He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.
Kenneth Baker,
English
Politician
#Practice
#Statesmanship
Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.
Kenneth Baker,
English
Politician
#People
#Success
#Succeed
#Worth
#Mistake
So all the system was running down and collapsing. Mrs. Thatcher became the leader of the Conservative Party in February 1975, and she clearly wanted to strike out and do something different.
Kenneth Baker,
English
Politician
#Conservative
#Party
#Leader
#Running
#February
By the end of the 1970s Britain was in a mess.
Kenneth Baker,
English
Politician
#End
It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.
Kenneth Baker,
English
Politician
#English
Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes. That is not how it happened.
Kenneth Baker,
English
Politician
#Historians
#Causes