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.
HAROLD WILSONAt home and abroad I have repeatedly been asked what are the main essentials of a successful prime minister.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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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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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 labour party is like a stage-coach.
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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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All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.
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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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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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