"I am the base, " she declares, predicting Democrats will turn out and vote, once they fully understand the stakes (or choice, as the Democrats now put it) in this election.

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"Hospital infection is the next asbestos, " she declares.

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"I'm a disco Tory, " she bravely declares.

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"There's this adage in politics that a candidate is never so popular as he is on the day he declares, " she says.

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He declares Lady Thatcher's greatest virtue to have been how little she cared about whether people liked her.

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