I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night’s sleep.
HAROLD WILSONMay 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.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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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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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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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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[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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I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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The ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.
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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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In politics a week is a very long time.
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Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
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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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We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …
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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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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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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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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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I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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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 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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The Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry.
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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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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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A week is a long time in politics.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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