Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
HAROLD WILSONIf the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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A week is a long time in politics.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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If we don’t give science its proper place in our national life. We shall no doubt be training all the bullfighters we need, because we don’t use many.
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The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian.
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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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I’m at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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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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The labour party is like a stage-coach.
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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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In politics a week is a very long time.
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The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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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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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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Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
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The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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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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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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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …
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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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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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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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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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