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“Nation editor Katrina van den Heuvel told me that the failure to adequately cover the Downing Street Memo epitomizes the timidity, the cowardice of a media that has been manipulated, intimidated, bullied by an administration that has taken it to a high level. . lapdog news media.”

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Author:Frank Rich

“One of the depressing things in England is the total orthodoxy: the law is handed down from Downing Street.”

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Author:David Hare

“An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.”

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Author:Clement Attlee

“When I was in Downing Street, David Cameron saw me and said, "Please, shout it all around and let it penetrate to my cabinet meeting." So I bellowed: "Gordon's alive!"”

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Author:Brian Blessed

“There was a process in place at that time - the Downing Street Declaration of December 1993 - which set out the terms and conditions under which people who had been involved in paramilitary activity could come into the political process.”

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Author:David Trimble

“When New Labour came to power, we got a Right-wing Conservative government. I came to realise that voting Labour wasn't in Scotland's interests any more. Any doubt I had about that was cast aside for ever when I saw Gordon Brown cosying up to Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street.”

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Author:Jimmy Reid

“In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.”

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Author:Tony Blair

“Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.”

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.”

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Author:Margaret Thatcher

“There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.”

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Author:Margaret Thatcher

“No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.”

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Author:Margaret Thatcher

“To me consensus seems to be - the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no-one believes, but to which no-one objects - the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner "I stand for consensus"?”

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Author:Margaret Thatcher

“Actual evidence I have none, But my aunt's charwoman's sister's son Heard a policeman, on his beat Say to a housemaid in Downing Street That he had a brother, who had a friend, Who knew when the war was going to end.”

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Author:Reginald Arkell

“What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner 'I stand for consensus'?”

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Author:Margaret Thatcher

“I have been to Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street but cannot get on the BBC. I am very disappointed because it boils down to snobbery.”

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Author:Phil Taylor

“I am speaking to you from the Cabinet Room at 10 Downing Street. This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government an official note stating that unless we heard from them by eleven o'clock, that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland, a state of war would exist between us. I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received, and consequently this country is at war with Germany.”

“I'd be happy to have regular face-to-face meetings at Downing Street with David Cameron to argue the case for alternative economic policies.”

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Author:Frances O'Grady