I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
HAROLD WILSONWhichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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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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I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …
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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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A week is a long time in politics.
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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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[Criticizing as “appalingly complacent” a Conservative Government report that by the ’60s, Britain would be producing all the scientists needed] Of course we shall.
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Selsdon Man is designing a system of society for the ruthlessness and the pushing, the uncaring. His message to the rest is: you’re out on your own.
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I’m at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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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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