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In the end we are all sacked and it’s always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life.
[I occupy] the extreme right-wing edge of the left-wing movement.
The only way a reporter should look at a politician is down.
[On David Steel, Leader of the Liberal Party] He’s passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.
[Of Winston Churchill] He is a terrible burden for any Govt. to carry—someone said of [his father] Randolph Churchill
The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
Kim Campbell, the first female prime minister of Canada, was right when she said a 47-day-long election campaign (Imagine a campaign of only 47 days!) was not enough time to reconsider the nation’s social programs. But she was wrong to say so.
[Of two fellow congressmen] They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.
It’s 90 per cent of the politicians who give the other 10 per cent a bad name.
Whatever politicians, activists and manipulators propose, it is the phlegmatic, indifferent, ingrained electorate which disposes.
