Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.
HAROLD WILSONOne man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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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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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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I’m at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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In politics a week is a very long time.
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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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The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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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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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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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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The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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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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I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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