Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Edwina Currie

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British politician Edwina Currie.

Last updated on December 25, 2024.

Edwina Currie is a British writer, broadcaster and former politician, serving as Conservative Party Member of Parliament for South Derbyshire from 1983 until 1997. She was a Junior Health Minister for two years, resigning in 1988 during the salmonella-in-eggs controversy.

British - Politician | Born: October 13, 1946

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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

There's no smoke without mud being flung around.

Edwina Currie

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

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

Edwina Currie

Businessmen should stand or fall on their own two feet.

Edwina Currie

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.

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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.

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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.

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

Edwina Currie

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

Edwina Currie

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

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

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

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