James Callaghan
James Callaghan
Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, KG, PC, often known as Jim Callaghan, was a British politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979 and the Leader of the Labour Party from 1976 to 1980. Callaghan is to date the only politician in history to have served in all four of the "Great Offices of State", having been Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1964 to 1967, Home Secretary from 1967 to 1970,...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionLeader
Date of Birth27 March 1912
strong long people
Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.
strong views house
It is quite clear from what has been said and written that, time after time after time, there has been a conspiracy between the Conservative Front Bench in this House and the inbuilt Conservative majority in the House of Lords to defeat legislation that has passed through the House of Commons...I warn the House of Lords of the consequences...it is our strong view that the House of Lords should recall that its role is not that of a wrecking chamber, but of a revising chamber. In recent weeks, it has been wrecking legislation passed by this House.
black chickens coming home sky turned wings
The sky turned black with the flapping wings of chickens coming home to roost.
land promised towards
You can never reach the promised land. You can march towards it.
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The best word to describe her was gracious. She was a wonderful lady and will be very sadly missed. I just hope he survives until the 27th of this month, when he will be 93 years old.
halfway round truth
A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
allowed cannot
Your strike will not win. You cannot be allowed to succeed.
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Society today is so organized that every individual group has the power to disrupt it. How is their power to be channelled into constructive channels?
moving perspective three
I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'.
law action bad-laws
If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.
brother joining band
I've never been one to say that Britain was joining a happy band of brothers.
loss british-soldiers citizens
There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.
teenage favour
I am rather in favour of dealing with teenage hooliganism.
future land vision
You never reach the promised land. You can march towards it