I’m at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
HAROLD WILSONThere 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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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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If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.
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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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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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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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I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
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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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The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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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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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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I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …
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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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