At home and abroad I have repeatedly been asked what are the main essentials of a successful prime minister.
HAROLD WILSONThe ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.
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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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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The labour party is like a stage-coach.
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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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I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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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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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Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry.
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All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.
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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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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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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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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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