"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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"Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power."
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"The only limits of power are the bounds of belief."
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"We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution"
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"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."
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"[Criticizing as "appalingly complacent" a Conservative Government report that by the '60s, Britain would be producing all the scientists needed] Of course we shall, 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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"I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle."
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"In politics a week is a very long time."
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"One man's wage increase is another man's price increase."
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"The monarchy is a labor intensive industry."
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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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"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."
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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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"With the ministry's motto 'Research on a Shoestring' emblazoned on his coat of arms, he has to struggle with a treasury more interested in surtax relief than national survival. [Responding to an earlier statement by British Science Minister, Lord Hailsham, that British scientists were being recruited by the U.S.]"
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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. I'm going on, and the Labour government's going on."
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"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."
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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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