Harold MacMillan Quotes About Politics

• You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all the rest.

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  House   Politics   Cry  

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• After long experience of politics, I have never found that there is any inhibition caused by ignorance as regards criticism.

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  Ignorance   Long   Political  

  Hansard 11 July 1963, col. 1411

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• It was a storm in a tea cup, but in politics we sail in paper boats.

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  Tea   Storm   Paper  

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• Revolt by all means, but only on one issue at a time. To do more would be to confuse the whips.

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  Mean   Issues   Political  

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• At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

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  1958 Speech during the first visit of a British Prime Minister to Australia,17 Feb.

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• The only quality needed for an MP is the ability to write a good letter.

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• A successful current affairs television show seems to be more and more a cross between a music hall turn and a scene in a torture chamber.

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• As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

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  Speech to London Conservatives, 7 Mar. 1961, in The Times 8 Mar. 1961

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