We may be a small island, but we are not a small people.
Edward Heath
Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.
Baron William Henry Beveridge
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
Aneurin Bevan
Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.
Hugh Gaitskell
But the policies of the 1960s would not be successful today. No more would general import controls.They benefit some home industries at the expense of the livelihood of everyone working in exports. We would be robbing Peter to pay Paul.
James Callaghan
To be alive at all involves some risk.
Harold Macmillan
There are only two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.
Alexander Douglas Home
No TV performance takes such careful preparation as an off-the-cuff talk.
Richard M Nixon
You can't underestimate the power of fear.
Patricia Nixon
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
Margaret Thatcher
No battle is worth fighting except the last one.
John Enoch Powell
I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.
Clement Attlee
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.
Ludwig Erhard
In the name of policy, change your friends.
Charles De Gaulle
I say to myself that I mustn't let myself be cut off in there, and yet the moment I enter my bag is taken out of my hand, I'm pushed in, shepherded, nursed and above all cut off, alone. Whitehall envelops me.
Richard Crossman
He was the future, once...
Tony Blair
The Times (25 May, 1983).
Denis Healey
We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.
Golda Meir
There is going to be a lot of plain-talking in this election.
Willy Brandt
I do hope you can see me today.
Elizabeth II of England
Some see private enterprise as a predatory target to be shot, others as a cow to be milked, but few are those who see it as a sturdy horse pulling the wagon.
Winston Churchill
When we have a majority we will do it. I think the days of the Lords are quite genuinely numbered.
Tony Benn
What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.
Anthony Crosland
There's high, and there's high, and to get really high--I mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high-that's where I'm going'.
George Harrison
I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.
Neil Kinnock
What a squalid and irresponsible little profession it is. Nothing prepares you for how bad Fleet Street really is until it craps on you from a great height.
Ken Livingstone
With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away.
Lord Longford
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your Living room by people you wouldn't have in your house.