I’m at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
HAROLD WILSONAll these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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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 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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The labour party is like a stage-coach.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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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 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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At home and abroad I have repeatedly been asked what are the main essentials of a successful prime minister.
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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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If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.
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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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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 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 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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A week is a long time in politics.
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