The labour party is like a stage-coach. If you rattle along at great speed everybody inside is too exhilarated or too seasick to cause any trouble. But if you stop everybody gets out and argues about where to go next.
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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.Harold Wilson
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I am an optimist, but I'm an optimist who carries a raincoat.
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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
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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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