43 Quotes by Michael Foot

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    I certainly think that a Labour Government will have to have effective powers to control the outflow of capital.

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    A speech from Ernest Bevin on a major occasion had all the horrific fascination of a public execution. If the mind was left immune, eyes and ears and emotions were riveted.

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    Disraeli was my favourite Tory. He was an adventurer pure and simple, or impure and complex. I'm glad to say Gladstone got the better of him.

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    A Britain which denounced the insanity of the nuclear strategy would be in a position to direct its influence at the United Nations and in the world at large, in a manner at present denied us

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    The members of our secret service have apparently spent so much time under the bed looking for communists that they haven't had the time to look in the bed.

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