Edwina Currie Quotes

• 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

  Country, Sex, Wife

  Speech at Runcorn, 12 Feb. 1987, in Guardian 13 Feb. 1987

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

  Edwina Currie

  Christian, Dream, People

  "Mrs Currie Dishes up AIDS Advice". www.yorkshirepost.co.uk. February 13, 1987.

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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

  Giving, Advice, Pieces

  The Observer 'Sayings of the Week', 3 April (1988)

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

  Edwina Currie

  People, Poverty, Problem

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

  Edwina Currie

  Basics, Humbug, Back To Basics

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

  Edwina Currie

  Blonde, Hedgehogs, Littles

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• 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

  Senior, Flirting, Should Have

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Edwina Currie

  Character, Men, Priorities

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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

  Party, Breakfast, Household

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

  Edwina Currie

  Party, Thinking, Soft Drinks

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• There's no smoke without mud being flung around.

  Edwina Currie

  Mud, Smoke

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• Businessmen should stand or fall on their own two feet.

  Edwina Currie

  Fall, Two, Feet

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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.

  Edwina Currie

  Running, Attitude, Thinking

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