Frank Dobson Quotes

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Frank Dobson

Profession : Politician

Birth : March 15, 1940

I don't think we can go into important local elections next year... with Tony Blair as leader and expect to keep many of the councillors we've got now.

Frank Dobson

The present system of protecting NHS patients was a bit of a shambles.

Frank Dobson

I am not against Muslim schools. But as I believe in integration, I think we would be better off overall if we did not have denominational schools at all.

Frank Dobson

Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner.

Frank Dobson

There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West.

Frank Dobson

I think I've had a very privileged life.

Frank Dobson

My own view is that if you filled every member of the parliamentary Labour party with a truth drug and lashed them to a polygraph lie detector, very, very few of them would support foundation hospitals.

Frank Dobson

If you say someone is thrilled, it implies talk of an exciting project. I'm wary of such talk.

Frank Dobson

It is more important for Labour to raise the reputation of politics than for the Tories, who are only in politics for the money.

Frank Dobson