Over and above communication and vigilance, there are two factors I have always mentioned. They are sleep, and a sense of history.
HAROLD WILSONThe labour party is like a stage-coach.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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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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If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.
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The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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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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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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We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …
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In politics a week is a very long time.
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The labour party is like a stage-coach.
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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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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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A week is a long time in politics.
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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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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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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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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I’d have it tinned. With vinegar.
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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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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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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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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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[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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