"No rising hope on the political scene who offered his services to Labour when I happened to be its leader can be dismissed as an opportunist."

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Source : Michael Foot's remarks on Tony Blair, 1995.

Michael Foot

#Leader Quotes #Political Quotes #Rising Quotes

“If you seek what is honorable, what is good, what is the truth of your life, all the other things you could not imagine come as a matter of course.”
“It might be hard to believe, but as difficult as cancer was, in some ways it was good for me.”

Source : Sister Souljah (2013). “The Sister Souljah Collection #1: The Coldest Winter Ever; Midnight, A Gangster Love Story; and Midnight and the Meaning of Love”, p.328, Simon and Schuster
“It is not necessarily true that expensive experiments are not worthwhile doing but there are plenty of rather cheap experiments which are certainly worth doing.”
“I used to love the Beatles and the Stones and I'd always want to hang out with them, even though they were about seven years older.”
“I'm not saying Senator Mitchell's report is entirely wrong. I am saying Brian McNamee's statements about me are wrong. Let me be clear: I have never taken ***** or HGH.”
“I should start charging uncomfortable thoughts rent. Except what would they pay me in? Probably something even worse.”
“Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.”
“I want an ending that's satisfying. I'm more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent and feel like an ending. I don't like when it just seems to putter out. I mean, life is chaotic enough.”

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