James Callaghan

“The comfortable paddling in the warm waters of the Caribbean will be over.”

“A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.”

“To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”

“There are times, perhaps once every thirty years, when there is a sea-change in politics. It then does not matter what you say or what you do. There is a shift in what the public wants and what it approves of.”

“We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession... I tell you in all candour that that option no longer exists.”

“Having a trade union background, I am not afraid of a fight.”

“Crisis? What crisis?”

“I'm the first prime minister in this century to have a granddaughter born in 10 Downing Street.”