One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
HAROLD WILSONI’m at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution
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Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.
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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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It is quite clear to me that the Tory Party will get rid of Mrs Thatcher in about 3 years time.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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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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I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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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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I’m at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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There is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much as it pays its prime minister, 250 times as much as it pays its members of Parliament and 500 times as much as it pays some of its ministers of religion.
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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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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 I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I’d have it tinned. With vinegar.
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