"There was only one punch. Tony Blair rang me and he said 'Are you OK?' and I said 'Yes', and he said 'Well, what happened?' and I said 'I was just carrying out your orders. You told us to connect with the electorate, so I did."

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Source : "As David Cameron poses with blacked up dancers - the worst political PR blunders" by Simon Keegan, www.mirror.co.uk. October 14, 2014.

John Prescott

#Order Quotes #Blair Quotes #Said Quotes

“I'm alright, nobody worry about me. Why you gotta gimme a fight? Can't you just let it be.”
“I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.”
“All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.”
“There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.”
“There are a lot of photographers who have influenced me; some of the great ones, like Herb Ritts, Helmut Newton, and [Alfred] Stieglitz. I draw from all of them. You're supposed to steal from the good ones.”
“Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.”

Source : George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2011). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One”, p.75, MIT Press
“Iâ€™ve been a con artist since I was 16 and trying to get my dad to buy me a car. I never succeeded, but I learnt a lot of tactics.”
“Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.”

Source : Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals”, p.176

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