You're running to be prime minister - it's hard to be the person who makes jokes.
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“You're running to be prime minister - it's hard to be the person who makes jokes.”
— Ed Miliband · Jokes
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“You're running to be prime minister - it's hard to be the person who makes jokes.”
“The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.”
“The way that you are when you're allowed to be yourself is very different from when you're, say, being interviewed by Jeremy Paxman. You're never given the breathing space.”
“No one is going to persuade me that eight people arriving in South Shields is going to overwhelm the local system. I think that 25,000 refugees would be more in line with the U.N. That would be a substantive contribution.”
“People want bigger, bolder answers to the problems that exist. I felt, as leader, 'My analysis is big; are the answers big enough?'”
“Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.”
More Jokes Quotes
“I think I was a behavior problem, mostly, but in a fun way. I tried to tell jokes. I was the middle kid, so I was always looking for attention and trying to be the one that equalized everything.”
“When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes 10 hours a day, your mind starts going to strange places.”
“I once read that in vaudeville, it was often the straight guy who got paid more than the comic because that's the tougher job. He has to set up the jokes in just the right way.”
“I think people are a lot more sensitive than they used to be, and quite rightly so. I don't think we should be using racial jokes and things like that.”
“I like situational comedy when people are being completely serious and yet you can find something extremely funny, not jokes.”
“I've said jokes where I thought people might get up and hit me for this. A couple of people have thought about it. But they didn't. It gives you a lot of power, because if you're on shows where people are worried about getting sacked and you're not, then you're transcendent because you say what other people would like to say.”