Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
HAROLD WILSONI’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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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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The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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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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The labour party is like a stage-coach.
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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 an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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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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At home and abroad I have repeatedly been asked what are the main essentials of a successful prime minister.
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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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The Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry.
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The government have only a small majority in the House of Commons. I want to make it quite clear that this will not affect our ability to govern. Having been charged with the duties of Government we intend to carry out those duties.
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We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …
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A week is a long time in politics.
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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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