"To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern."
— Nigel Lawson

January 1, 1970

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Quoted in the Daily Mail (26 March 1991), as cited in The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations, ed. Robert Andrews, Columbia University Press (1993), p. 381