When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.