Over and above communication and vigilance, there are two factors I have always mentioned. They are sleep, and a sense of history.
HAROLD WILSONThis 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.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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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 an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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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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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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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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In politics a week is a very long time.
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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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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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[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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.
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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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All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.
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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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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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