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I met Curzon in Downing Street, and received the sort of greeting a corpse would give an undertaker.
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   An empty taxi arrived at10 Downing Street, and when the door was opened Attlee got out.

Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill

— Attributed. Quoted in Kenneth Harris  Attlee (1982), ch.16.

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He was without any rival whatever, the first comic genius who ever installed himself in Downing Street

michael foot

— On Benjamin Disraeli, in his own book, Debts of Honour

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An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.

clement attlee

— A remark commonly attributed to Winston Churchill; however, Churchill denied the attribution, saying "Mr Attlee is an honourable and gallant gentleman, and a faithful colleague who served his country well at the time of her greatest need. I should be obliged if you would make it clear whenever an occasion arises that I would never make such a remark about him, and that I strongly disapprove of anybody who does."

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This is the second time in our history that there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honour. I believe it is peace in our time.

neville chamberlain

— "Neville Chamberlain 1937-40 Conservative", 10 Downing Street, number10.gov.uk (accessed 2006-06-11)
On returning to England from Munich in 1938; cf. Benjamin Disraeli's return from the Congress of Berlin in 1878

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But that's not possible. The Prime Minister left Downing Street, he was driven away


— Who: Indra Ganesh
— Source: Aliens of London (2005)
— Notes: .

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