If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.
HAROLD WILSONI believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night’s sleep.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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The labour party is like a stage-coach.
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I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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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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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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The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian.
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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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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Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry.
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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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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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All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.
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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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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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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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