I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night’s sleep.
HAROLD WILSONThe 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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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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Given 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.
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I get a little nauseated, perhaps, when I hear the phrase ‘freedom of the press’ used as freely as it is, knowing that a large part of our proprietorial press is not free at all.
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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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We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution
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If you rattle along at great speed everybody inside is too exhilarated or too seasick to cause any trouble. But if you stop everybody gets out and argues about where to go next.
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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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The labour party is like a stage-coach.
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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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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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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I’d have it tinned. With vinegar.
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At home and abroad I have repeatedly been asked what are the main essentials of a successful prime minister.
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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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I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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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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