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She has no imagination and that means no compassion

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Most liberties have been won by people who broke the law

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A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg

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The only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress.

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Socialism without public ownership is nothing but a fantastic apology

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How long will it be before the cry goes up: "Let's kill all the judges"?

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[There are] judges who stretch the law... to suit reactionary attitudes.

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Think of it! A second chamber selected by the Whips. A seraglio of eunuchs.

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Men of power have not time to read; yet men who do not read are unfit for power

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Politicians live in little worlds of their own and imagine they are the universe.

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We had not the armour, the strength, the quickness in manoeuvre, yes, the leadership

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It's quite a change to have a prime minister who hasn't got any political ideas at all.

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There is nothing wrong with being a Marxist. Their point of view is essential to a democratic debate

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He was without any rival whatever, the first comic genius who ever installed himself in Downing Street

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I certainly think that a Labour Government will have to have effective powers to control the outflow of capital.

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It is not necessary that every time he rises he should give his famous imitation of a semi-house-trained polecat.

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People must learn more and more that the strength of this country is the democratic power of the trade union movement

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It's impossible to write the history of freedom in this country without telling how trade unions have contributed to it.

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I think the House of Lords ought to be abolished and I don't think the best way for me to abolish it is to go there myself

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Disraeli was my favourite Tory. He was an adventurer pure and simple, or impure and complex. I'm glad to say Gladstone got the better of him.

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No rising hope on the political scene who offered his services to Labour when I happened to be its leader can be dismissed as an opportunist.

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On British Liberal Democrat politician David Steel:
He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

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The national strike of the miners in 1972 performed, I believe, a great service, not only to the miners, but the people in Britain today who wanted coal

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What is needed is a strong shift leftwards. This party in Parliament ought to start the process, and if it won't, the party conference will do it for them

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The members of our secret service have apparently spent so much time under the bed looking for communists that they haven't had the time to look in the bed.

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