I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night’s sleep.
HAROLD WILSONI’m at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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The labour party is like a stage-coach.
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Over and above communication and vigilance, there are two factors I have always mentioned. They are sleep, and a sense of history.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.
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Every dog is allowed one bite, but a different view is taken of a dog that goes on biting all the time. He may not get his licence returned when it falls due.
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We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …
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Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
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The cumulative effects of the economic and financial sanctions might well bring the rebellion to an end within a matter of weeks rather than months.
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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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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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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I’d have it tinned. With vinegar.
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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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[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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