If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I’d have it tinned. With vinegar.
HAROLD WILSONSelsdon 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.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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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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I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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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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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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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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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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Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.
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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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Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
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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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From now on, the pound abroad is worth 14 per cent or so less in terms of other currencies. That doesn’t mean, of course, that the Pound here in Britain, in your pocket or purse or in your bank, has been devalued.
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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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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 like a stage-coach.
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