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.
From Neil Kinnock
The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes.
I didn't call for a ballot at the start of the miners' strike in 1984. I'll regret that until my dying day.
In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it.
Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.
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.
You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.
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.
Is Tony Blair of the Labour party? The answer to that is profoundly 'yes', but that is not how, sentimentally, he is regarded in the Labour movement generally.
The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.
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