Quotes by Alan Johnson

“I would like to thank Adair Turner and his fellow commissioners for their thorough analysis of this important issue. The Commission has had a hard look at the pension system in the UK, and has set out the stark challenges we all face in providing for increasingly long retirements. This report brings home the message the Government first highlighted in the 2002 Green Paper; that people must either save more or work longer.”

“The spurt in world oil prices is totally unjustified as the oil producing nations are exploiting high growth rates in India and China.”

“We were thinking Wall Street would be flattish for the year, but we fortunately may have undershot.”

“Often a patient will think they want a sicknote, when the best advice a critical friend can give might not meet their initial expectations,”

“For people who are able to work again, a job can be itself an important step in the road to recovery and rehabilitation.”

“Rather than rest being the best remedy for back pain, for example, research now shows it can actually delay recovery and make things worse. Advising patients to stay active can help them get back to work and on with their life.”

“The forthcoming White Paper on public health will recognize the beneficial role some work can have in helping people recover from illnesses or disease. And it will emphasize the damaging effects of being out of work -- urging the NHS to see return to work as the norm.”

“Given the right support most people claiming incapacity benefits can be helped back to work, ... Now weve brought down unemployment to a 30-year low and have half a million vacancies in the economy theres no reason for all this talent and potential to go to waste.”

“The case raises important issues that affect the publics right to know and the governments ability to use the attorney-client privilege as a shield to deny access to documents that reflect its operations at the highest levels.”

“The public has a vested interest in being sure that public employees are carrying out their duties in a professional way. In some of the cases, we received the entire file and then in others we didnt get anything. That has the appearance that theres a different standard for different types of employees.”

Cheating is an health issue.