[Criticizing as “appalingly complacent” a Conservative Government report that by the ’60s, Britain would be producing all the scientists needed] Of course we shall.
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If we don’t give science its proper place in our national life. We shall no doubt be training all the bullfighters we need, because we don’t use many.
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Over and above communication and vigilance, there are two factors I have always mentioned. They are sleep, and a sense of history.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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The ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.
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All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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May I say, for the benefit of those who have been carried away by the gossip of the last few days, that I know what’s going on.
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Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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I get a little nauseated, perhaps, when I hear the phrase ‘freedom of the press’ used as freely as it is, knowing that a large part of our proprietorial press is not free at all.
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From now on, the pound abroad is worth 14 per cent or so less in terms of other currencies. That doesn’t mean, of course, that the Pound here in Britain, in your pocket or purse or in your bank, has been devalued.
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The cumulative effects of the economic and financial sanctions might well bring the rebellion to an end within a matter of weeks rather than months.
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The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian.
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