“I'm like Baldwin. I'm here to give people a quiet life.”

—  Harold Wilson

Remarks to Bernard Donoughue during the February 1974 general election campaign, quoted in Charles Moore, Margaret Thatcher. The Authorized Biography, Volume One: Not For Turning (2013), p. 246
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