“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.”

The ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.

At home and abroad I have repeatedly been asked what are the main essentials of a successful prime minister.

Every dog is allowed one bite, but a different view is taken of a dog that goes on biting all the time. He may not get his licence returned when it falls due.

A week is a long time in politics.

One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.

The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay.

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.

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.

This party is a bit like an old stagecoach. If you drive along at a rapid rate everyone aboard is either so exhilarated or so seasick that you don’t have a lot of difficulty.

We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …

The Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry.

Selsdon Man is designing a system of society for the ruthlessness and the pushing, the uncaring. His message to the rest is: you’re out on your own.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.

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.

Nothing can be sold but such things as can be carried away

What happens to one of the three or five or twelve will happen to them all. Whatever grief or triumph may touch any one will touch every one, as they are carried forward into the unknowable under the brilliant, terrifying sun which nourishes all.

Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.

We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land.

Have you finished your column for tomorrow’s headline?” it was vee. She came up beside me, jotting notes on the notepad she carried everywhere. “i’m thinking of writing mine on the injustice of seating charts. I got paired with a girl who said she just finished lice treatment this morning.

When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don’t get carried away-it’s only dresses.

Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.

Some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand–a center of gravity.