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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

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Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.

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If the answer is more politicians, you are asking the wrong question.

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Something I was not aware had happened suddenly turned out not to have happened.

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It makes me laugh now when I hear him called a grey man. That's just a cover. It's a mask.

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Liberty is equally desirable to the good and to the bad, to the brave and to the dastardly.

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I could name eight people — half of those eight are barmy. How many apples short of a picnic?
On his Tory critics

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It is the one event in my life of which I am most ashamed and I have long feared would be made public.

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The right hon. and learned Member is the man who likes to say yes in Europe — Monsieur Oui, the poodle of Brussels.

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I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.

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A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.

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In the next ten years we will have to continue to make changes which will make the whole of this country a genuinely classless society.

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Whether you agree with me, disagree with me, like me or loathe me, don't bind my hands when I am negotiating on behalf of the British people.

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Oh, Lord, if I must die today,
Please make it after Close of Play.
For this, I know, if nothing more,
I will not go, without the score...

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Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be 'too clever by half '. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.

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The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long-run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

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I want to see us build a country that is at ease with itself, a country that is confident and a country that is able and willing to build a better quality of life for all its citizens.

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We will do precisely what the British nation has done all through its history when it had its back to the wall — turn round and fight for the things it believes in, and that is what I shall do.

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