In politics a week is a very long time.
HAROLD WILSONAt home and abroad I have repeatedly been asked what are the main essentials of a successful prime minister.
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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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We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …
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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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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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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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All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.
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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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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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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I’d have it tinned. With vinegar.
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Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
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I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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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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