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.
HAROLD WILSONThe 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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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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At home and abroad I have repeatedly been asked what are the main essentials of a successful prime minister.
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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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[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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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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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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We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …
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From now on, the pound abroad is worth 14 per cent or so less in terms of other currencies. That doesn’t mean, of course, that the Pound here in Britain, in your pocket or purse or in your bank, has been devalued.
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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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The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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I’m at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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The ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.
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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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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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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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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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A week is a long time in politics.
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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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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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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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If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.
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We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution
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I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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In politics a week is a very long time.
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