It is quite clear to me that the Tory Party will get rid of Mrs Thatcher in about 3 years time.
HAROLD WILSONIf I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I’d have it tinned. With vinegar.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution
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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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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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If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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This party is a bit like an old stagecoach. If you drive along at a rapid rate everyone aboard is either so exhilarated or so seasick that you don’t have a lot of difficulty.
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Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
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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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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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At home and abroad I have repeatedly been asked what are the main essentials of a successful prime minister.
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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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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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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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