[Criticizing as “appalingly complacent” a Conservative Government report that by the ’60s, Britain would be producing all the scientists needed] Of course we shall.
HAROLD WILSONI’m at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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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 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 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 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 labour party is like a stage-coach.
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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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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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I’m at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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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’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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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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In politics a week is a very long time.
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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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The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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