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" I didn't call for a ballot at the start of the miners' strike in 1984. I'll regret that until my dying day. "
Neil Kinnock
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" No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons. "
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" Newspapers are tutors as well as informers. "
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" I'm the guy everybody wanted to live next door. They just didn't want me to be prime minister. "
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" The enemy of idealism is zealotry. "
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" I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old. "
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" There are politicians who seethe with ambition all the time, and there are a lot of other politicians who don't. I'm in the second category, that's all. "
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" I take notice of those who have argued consistently for the modernisation of the E.U., but so many of the skeptics in Britain are just hostile to the whole European idea. "
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" In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it. "
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" You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits. "
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" The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes. "
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" I would die for my country but I could never let my country die for me. "
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" If we are going to have a bicameral parliament, I think there should always be a reserved place for people whose background and experience are critical to the welfare of the nation. "
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" I'd like to be remembered as somebody who tried to promote justice. "
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" Margaret Thatcher was not a malicious person. She was a person who couldn't see, or didn't want to see, the unfairness and disadvantaging consequences of the application of what she thought to be a renewing ideology. "
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" People, even independently minded people, do to an extent draw their impressions from what they are told, especially if they are told it incessantly by newspapers. "
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" My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister. "
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" Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards. "
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" People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics that is not applied in the real world and doesn't address the real challenges and paradoxes and agonies is a hobby. "
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