John Hutton Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“As Tony Blair has made clear, our fundamental challenge is how to make Europe work better.”

“For many Europeans the next decade looks to be filled with threats rather than opportunities.”

“From my time in Health I know that choice empowers people lives.”

“Primary care must never be seen simply as a set of organisational structures.”

“My view is that targets, properly constructed and applied across public services have been fundamental to past successes and will be an essential part of sustaining progress into the future.”

“Advances in technology and in our understanding of illness and disease together with an expanded workforce and greater resources will allow us to provide more services to a higher quality.”

“But we need to show that the EU can modernise itself, can adapt to the needs of its citizens, can take their views into account. That will be our ambition for the UK Presidency.”

“Here in the UK the government has decided to accept the recommendations of the Better Regulation Task Force to measure and make targeted reductions in the administrative costs - the red tape costs - that regulations impose on business.”

“Some people argue that we should limit choice in favour of good local services. My response is simple: why should we assume those two concepts are mutually exclusive?”

“The challenge to our national economies and the collective economy of Europe will become - with the growth of China and the continuing productivity growth of the US - even more intense in the decades to come.”