Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
HAROLD WILSONIt is quite clear to me that the Tory Party will get rid of Mrs Thatcher in about 3 years time.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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The cumulative effects of the economic and financial sanctions might well bring the rebellion to an end within a matter of weeks rather than months.
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The labour party is like a stage-coach.
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The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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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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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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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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A week is a long time in politics.
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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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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 the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.
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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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All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.
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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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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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