Edwina Currie Quotations

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.

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

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

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

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

There's no smoke without mud being flung around.

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.

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

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.

It's sad he was unable to say a kind word.