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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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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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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

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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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Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.

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Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.

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I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.

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There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.

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The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change.

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I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Politician

Born: March 29th, 1943

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