I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night’s sleep.
HAROLD WILSONOn 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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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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The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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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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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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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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Tories never actually talk about getting rid of their leader, then suddenly there us a flash of steel between he shoulder-blades and rigormortis sets in.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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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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Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.
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In politics a week is a very long time.
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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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We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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