Greatest quotes of all time

Greatest quotes of all time

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kingofdbrits

622 posts

193 months

Monday 20th October 2008
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The best cure for sea sickness is to sit under a tree - Spike Milligan

Skywalker

3,269 posts

214 months

Monday 20th October 2008
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Tony Blair: 1997 Conference Speech
"I want this to be the New Labour Government that ended Tory boom and bust forever."

Gordon Brown: November 1997
"I am satisfied that the new monetary policy arrangements will deliver long-term price stability, and prevent a return to the cycle of boom and bust."

Gordon Brown: April 1998
"We will not return to the stop-go, boom-bust years which we saw under the Conservatives."

Gordon Brown: May 1998
"The Government have put in place policies to deliver that objective and are determined to avoid a return to boom and bust."

Gordon Brown: June 1998
"...rigorous financial discipline that, together with monetary stability, ends once and for all the boom and bust that for 30

years has undermined stability"

Gordon Brown: November 1998
"Britain was set to repeat the boom-bust cycle that led to 15 per cent. interest rates for one whole year in the early 1990s."

Tony Blair: November 1998
"...examine the legacy that we inherited and what we did. We had boom-and-bust economics and a doubled national debt."

Tony Blair: February 1999
"Moreover, for decades we have been prone to far greater swings in the economic cycle than our continental counterparts. It has been boom and bust....Under this Government, there is an entirely new framework for economic management in place"

Tony Blair: November 1999
"We have the best chance of ending boom and bust in years."

Gordon Brown: November 1999
"Indeed, Britain was set to repeat the old, familiar cycle of boom and bust. Since then, we have created and rigorously adhered to a new framework of modern economic management"

Ruth Kelly: November 1999
"The Government have rejected the boom and bust of the Conservative party"

Alistair Darling: January 2000
"On top of that, we have a healthy and stable economy and an end to the boom and bust that characterised the Tory years."

Alan Johnson: February 2000
"The Government's first priority on coming to office was to secure long-term economic stability and put an end to the damaging cycle of boom and bust."

Gordon Brown: March 2000
"Britain does not want a return to boom and bust."

Tony Blair: 2000 Conference Speech
"The first big choice: a government with the strength to deliver stability, or a government that takes the country back to boom and bust."

Gordon Brown: November 2000
"Our approach is to reject the old vicious circle of the '80s--rising debt, higher long-term interest rates, higher debt repayment costs, lower growth, higher unemployment, then enforced cuts in public spending. That was the old boom and bust."

Gordon Brown: March 2001
"We will not return to boom and bust."

Ruth Kelly: May 2002
"We must avoid a return to the days of boom and bust that manufacturers had to endure for a long time under the Conservatives."

Tony Blair: November 2003
"If we want to contrast what we have done in the past few years on delivery with what the right hon. and learned Gentleman delivered, let us remember the interest rates at 10 per cent. to 15 per cent., the 1.5 million fewer people in work, the boom and the bust and the borrowing at 8 per cent. of GDP."

Yvette Cooper: May 2004
"We know that they want to turn the clock back, but it would be foolish to turn it back to a policy of boom and bust."

John Prescott: January 2005
"Labour economic stability has replaced Tory boom and bust"

Alistair Darling: March 2005
"As I said, there are two approaches—first, a strong economy, stability and helping families or, secondly, the Tory cuts, the undermining of stability, and a return to the boom and bust of the 1990s."

Tony Blair: 2005 Conference Speech
"In the first two terms we corrected the weaknesses of the Tory years: boom-and-bust economics"

Gordon Brown: March 2006
"I have said before: no return to boom and bust."

Douglas Alexander: June 2006
"...there are genuine questions to be asked about why we now have the highest level of employment in many decades, contrary to the position during the boom-bust years of the Conservatives."

Tony Blair: 2006 Conference Speech
"In 1997, we faced daunting challenges. Boom and bust economics..... Now, for all that remains to be done, dwell for a moment on what has been achieved."

Gordon Brown: December 2006
"Boom and bust is a term that applied to the Conservative years and two of the worst recessions in history"

Gordon Brown: March 2007
"We will not return to the old boom and bust"

Alistair Darling: June 2007
"...acknowledges the outstanding performance of the economy under this Government with the longest unbroken economic expansion on record, in contrast to the boom and bust of the previous Government"

Right. That's you lot told!eekreadit

Edited by Skywalker on Monday 20th October 22:51

amir_j

3,579 posts

201 months

Monday 20th October 2008
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"Your first duty is to make yourself happy- only then can you make others happy"

Solzehnitysyn - First Circle (great book)

Saddle bum

4,211 posts

219 months

Monday 20th October 2008
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mp3manager

4,254 posts

196 months

Tuesday 21st October 2008
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Art is what you can get away with.
-- Andy Warhol

BEN66

5,528 posts

210 months

Tuesday 21st October 2008
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'Keep your pecker hard and your powder dry, and the world WILL turn.'

MartG

20,666 posts

204 months

Tuesday 21st October 2008
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The wife's not speaking to me cos i wouldn't open the door for her...........it's not my fault.......i just panicked and swam to the surface.

anonymous-user

54 months

Tuesday 21st October 2008
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Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.

Kaiser Soze

235 posts

225 months

Tuesday 21st October 2008
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'Some people believe football is a matter of life and death.
I'm very disappointed with that attitude.
I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.'

Bill Shankly

dan1981

17,380 posts

199 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2008
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Kaiser Soze said:
'Some people believe football is a matter of life and death.
I'm very disappointed with that attitude.
I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.'

Bill Shankly
In a similar vein...

"Of course I didn't take my wife to see Rochdale as an anniversary present, it was her birthday. Would I have got married in the football season? Anyway, it was Rochdale reserves." Bill Shankly

12joe340

417 posts

195 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2008
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Theres no I in team ................... there is a me tho

Dr Jekyll

23,820 posts

261 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2008
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There are no disasters, only opportunities. Opportunities indeed, for fresh disasters.

Boris Johnson

dan1981

17,380 posts

199 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2008
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12joe340 said:
Theres no I in team ................... there is a me tho
But only if you look hard enough...

thunderbelmont

2,982 posts

224 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2008
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I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.

Spike Milligan (of course!)

and another....

Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?


thunderbelmont

2,982 posts

224 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2008
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I almost forgot.....

And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, and the earth brought forth grass and the Rastafarians smoked it.

Spike again!

Gaspode

4,167 posts

196 months

Wednesday 22nd October 2008
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"America is the only country in the world that has gone from a state of barbarism to a state of decadence without the intermediary state of civilisation"

The Frog Gobbler

2,093 posts

241 months

Thursday 23rd October 2008
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You should try everything once.....

Except Incest and Morris Dancing!

AngryS3Owner

15,855 posts

229 months

Thursday 23rd October 2008
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Swilly said:
"You can fk your weekend up your asshole you wker"

Ex-gf, circa 2005
rofl I've seen most of the famous ones before but that actually had me laughing out loud!

audidoody

8,597 posts

256 months

Thursday 23rd October 2008
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"Here's my card"

"But it's blank"

"Yes, business is bad"




"Quick, swim for the bank"

"No, no. I'm overdrawn".

(More Spike)

slideways

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4,101 posts

221 months

Monday 3rd November 2008
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The thing that's wrong with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur.
george w bush (the tt)