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.
HAROLD WILSONThe office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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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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In politics a week is a very long time.
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The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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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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We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …
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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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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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I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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I’m at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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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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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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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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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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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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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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