A week is a long time in politics.
HAROLD WILSONIf I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I’d have it tinned. With vinegar.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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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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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 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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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Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry.
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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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If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.
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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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We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution
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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 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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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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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 ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.
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