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Barbara Castle

"I remember a big meeting with the hosiery trade in Harold's ministerial room."

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Donna Grant

"Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything."

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Donna Grant

"I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and southern fauna."

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Donna Grant

"And in another point of view, I think it is right that the address of a president should be on his own subject, and that different subjects should be thus brought in turn before the meetings."

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Donna Grant

"I don't date guys that I just meet randomly. I don't feel comfortable meeting strangers."

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Donna Grant

"We were all thrown together on this show very rapidly, there was casting then a few days later a meeting where we all got to read the scripts and meet each other. Literally days after that we were on our way to Dallas."

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Donna Grant

"Well, it was a typical meeting with the President. He was very gracious, very outgoing."

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Donna Grant

"I remember a big meeting with the hosiery trade in Harold's ministerial room."

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Donna Grant

"We have meetings with our record label to tell them how to market us."

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Donna Grant

"We used to hold those secret meetings at her house."

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Donna Grant

"I haven't ever gone to any Mensa meetings."

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Barbara Castle
"He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit."

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Barbara Castle
"It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available to the Labor Government, but the oil revenues were just coming in when Labor fell in '79."

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Barbara Castle
"If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s."

Economy

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Barbara Castle
"It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else."

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Barbara Castle
"That was not what men and women fought for during the war."

Man

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Barbara Castle
"And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale."

War

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Barbara Castle
"In politics, guts is all."

Politics

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Barbara Castle
"There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief."

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Barbara Castle
"You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation."

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Barbara Castle
"It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment."

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