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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.
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Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.
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A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.
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The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience.
Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.
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Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half.
The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.
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I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one.
But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough.
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I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.
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Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.