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.
HAROLD WILSONOne man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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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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We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …
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I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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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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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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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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Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.
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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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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I’d have it tinned. With vinegar.
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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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I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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