The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
HAROLD WILSONWhichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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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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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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The labour party is like a stage-coach.
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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 ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.
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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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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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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 I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I’d have it tinned. With vinegar.
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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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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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I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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