A week is a long time in politics.
HAROLD WILSONOne man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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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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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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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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In politics a week is a very long time.
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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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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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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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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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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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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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