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

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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …
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If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.
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The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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It is quite clear to me that the Tory Party will get rid of Mrs Thatcher in about 3 years time.
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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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At home and abroad I have repeatedly been asked what are the main essentials of a successful prime minister.
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I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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The government have only a small majority in the House of Commons. I want to make it quite clear that this will not affect our ability to govern. Having been charged with the duties of Government we intend to carry out those duties.
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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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There is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much as it pays its prime minister, 250 times as much as it pays its members of Parliament and 500 times as much as it pays some of its ministers of religion.
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I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night’s sleep.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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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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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I’d have it tinned. With vinegar.
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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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The labour party is like a stage-coach.
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The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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On 5 September, when the TUC unanimously rejected wage restraint, it was the end of an era, and all the financiers, all the little gnomes in Zürich and other finance centres about whom we keep on hearing, had started to make their dispositions in regard to sterling.
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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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I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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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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Tories never actually talk about getting rid of their leader, then suddenly there us a flash of steel between he shoulder-blades and rigormortis sets in.
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Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.
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