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	"The oil-producing countries who produced the oil so essential to the running of industry and people's homes suddenly took the bit between their teeth and started to push prices up, by billions and billions of pounds." - -- Barbara castle

Top 5 quotes from Barbara castle

"By accumulating, 5 percent of the richest people got 40 percent of Nigel Lawson's giveaway budget in 1988, and they didn't spend it on our own industries but on foreign luxuries."
"We didn't invest or anything, not only during the war but during the Depression years which preceded it. And so we said it'd only mean you'd run up an enormous bill and it wouldn't help us."
"It's just really - I was going to say organized greed, except that it was very disorganized. But it was an emotional, oh-I-can-make-money-here, never mind what the effect is on anybody else."
"What we set out to do was to ensure that this system of fair shares and the planning and controls continued after the war, and when we won, that's what we did."
"Of course, if you're a keen minister you'll fight very hard for your own department and for funds for your own department."

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