"Because of the security reasons for one thing and, second, my wife doesn't like to have her hair blown about. Have you got another silly question?"
— John Prescott

January 1, 1970

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Labour Party (UK) politiciansSailorsPoliticians from WalesDeputy Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom
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Comment on ITN news when asked why he had taken a car 250 yards from his hotel to the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth, instead of walking (30 September 1999), as quoted in "Prescott walks it like he talks it " BBC News online (30 September 1999)