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.
HAROLD WILSONI’m at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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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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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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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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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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At home and abroad I have repeatedly been asked what are the main essentials of a successful prime minister.
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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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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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The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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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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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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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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The Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry.
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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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Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
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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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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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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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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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I’m at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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May I say, for the benefit of those who have been carried away by the gossip of the last few days, that I know what’s going on.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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The labour party is like a stage-coach.
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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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