Quotes from British polititians of the last Tory Government. ============================================================= Suicide is a real threat to health. - Virginia Bottomley Anyone would think we are living on some island somewhere. - George walden It's not the future I'm talking about, I'm talking about tomorrow. - John Gummer The trend in the rise in unemployment is down. - Gillian shepherd The British public sees with blinding clarity. - Micael Heseltine The more important things are more important than the less important things. - Stephen Dorrell When the IRA plant such bombs, it proves they can scare people, it proves they can kill people, it proves nothing. - Peter Bottomley We said zero, and I think any statitician will tell you that... zero must mean plus or minus a few. - William Waldegrave Who Saddam Hussein kills, dies. - Jeffrey Archer We are not wholly an island, except geographically. - John Major There is no smoke without mud being flung around. - Edwina Currie You know what they say, don't get mad, get angry. - Edwina Currie I will never forget the 1981, - or was the 1982, honours list. - Julian Critchley all those people who say that there will never be a Single European Currency are trying to forcast history. -Kenneth clark