The News Quiz, BBC Radio 4, July 1997 (rebroadcast on BBC 7, 23 July 1999)
Variant: It seems a shallow observation, but… the Tory Conference are not an attractive lot, are they? I mean, if all those people were born in the same village, you'd blame pollution, wouldn't you?
“I sometimes wish that I were in the Labour Party. I would tear down all these institutions!”
Speaking of landlords, quoted in Frances Stevenson's diary entry (17 December 1919), A. J. P. Taylor (ed.), Lloyd George: A Diary (London: Hutchinson, 1971), p. 193
Prime Minister
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Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1863–1945Related quotes
In an interview following her election as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article2843875.ece, 10 November 2007.
Late 1910s, quoted in E. H. H. Green, The Crisis of Conservatism (London: Routledge, 1996), p. 141.
1910s
“I wish she was dead,' he says. 'I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best.”
Speech to the Conservative Party Conference (10 October 1975) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102777
Leader of the Opposition
“Sometimes I wish I wasn't as conscious as I am. It would be so much easier.”
Premier (1988)
Source: Keeping You a Secret
“Sorrow is like the ocean and sometimes I wish my heart would stop.”