Michael Foot — English Politician born on July 23, 1913,

Michael Mackintosh Foot PC FRSL was a British Labour Party politician and man of letters who was a Member of Parliament from 1945 to 1955 and from 1960 until 1992. He was Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1976 to 1980, and later the Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1980 to 1983. As leader, his nickname was "Worzel Gummidge"... (wikipedia)

Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.
She has no imagination and that means no compassion.
He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.
A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.