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The employment laws are completely unrealistic. You cannot overcome that in only 10 years. It will take at least another generation before young people are properly qualified.

- Helen Suzman

Generation, Laws, Qualified

For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn't mean that I would like to return to the old one.

- Helen Suzman

Old, Current, Like, Old One

I am provocative, and I admit this. It isn't as if I'm only on the receiving end, a poor, frail little creature. I can be thoroughly nasty when I get going, and I don't pull my punches.

- Helen Suzman

I Can, Punches, Receiving, Nasty

I used to be a fan of proportional representation, but I am not at all now I have seen it in action.

- Helen Suzman

I Am, Now, Fan, Proportional

I can say unequivocally that the boycott does not work. It's never complete enough to have impact unless it's backed by force, and I don't think anybody in America seriously proposes that.

- Helen Suzman

Work, Think, Unequivocally, Proposes

My own electorate, which I represented for 36 years as an anti-apartheid politician, had a considerable number of Jewish voters supporting me throughout my career.

- Helen Suzman

Career, Voters, Which, Electorate

Tool of Communist agitators... it's really a joke, isn't it? Because, quite clearly, we are a party of real moderates. It just shows how little they understand.

- Helen Suzman

Real, Understand, Communist, Moderates

I represent all the enlightened people in this country, and that's a fine thing to be able to do. It infuriates my opponents when I say this, but it is true.

- Helen Suzman

Country, Say, Opponents, Enlightened

It is the answers, not the questions, that are embarrassing.

- Helen Suzman

Questions, Answers, Embarrassing

Debate is almost non-existent and no one is apparently accountable to anybody apart from their political party bosses. It is bad news for democracy in this country.

- Helen Suzman

News, Country, Accountable, Apart

I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for.

- Helen Suzman

Simple, Democratic Society, Human Rights

I am hopeful about any future for whites in this country, but not entirely optimistic.

- Helen Suzman

Country, Optimistic, Whites, Entirely

All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis.

- Helen Suzman

War, Very, Stories, Useful

This country is armed to the teeth, and none of these African states could begin to attack South Africa.

- Helen Suzman

Country, South Africa, South, Attack

I don't think we will ever go the way of Zimbabwe, but people are concerned.

- Helen Suzman

Think, Concerned, Ever, Zimbabwe

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