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.
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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This party is a bit like an old stagecoach. If you drive along at a rapid rate everyone aboard is either so exhilarated or so seasick that you don’t have a lot of difficulty.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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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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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’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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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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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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We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution
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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 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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If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.
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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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[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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