If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I’d have it tinned. With vinegar.
HAROLD WILSONGiven a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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I’m at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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The labour party is like a stage-coach.
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Tories never actually talk about getting rid of their leader, then suddenly there us a flash of steel between he shoulder-blades and rigormortis sets in.
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I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night’s sleep.
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There is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much as it pays its prime minister, 250 times as much as it pays its members of Parliament and 500 times as much as it pays some of its ministers of religion.
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Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
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May I say, for the benefit of those who have been carried away by the gossip of the last few days, that I know what’s going on.
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It is quite clear to me that the Tory Party will get rid of Mrs Thatcher in about 3 years time.
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We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …
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All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.
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On 5 September, when the TUC unanimously rejected wage restraint, it was the end of an era, and all the financiers, all the little gnomes in Zürich and other finance centres about whom we keep on hearing, had started to make their dispositions in regard to sterling.
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The Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.
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