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.
HAROLD WILSONI’m at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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The labour party is like a stage-coach.
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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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In politics a week is a very long time.
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I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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This party is a bit like an old stagecoach. If you drive along at a rapid rate everyone aboard is either so exhilarated or so seasick that you don’t have a lot of difficulty.
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I’m at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution
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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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At home and abroad I have repeatedly been asked what are the main essentials of a successful prime minister.
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