Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
HAROLD WILSONOne man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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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A week is a long time in politics.
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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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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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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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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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All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.
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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 going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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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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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I’d have it tinned. With vinegar.
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The labour party is like a stage-coach.
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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 monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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