I Gather, Young Man, That You Wish To Be A Member Of Parliament.

I Gather, Young Man, That You Wish To Be A Member Of Parliament.

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I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The
first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about
the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies
died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister.
That is a political statistic.
-- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

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