I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night’s sleep.
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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In politics a week is a very long time.
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I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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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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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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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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I’m at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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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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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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The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution
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The government have only a small majority in the House of Commons. I want to make it quite clear that this will not affect our ability to govern. Having been charged with the duties of Government we intend to carry out those duties.
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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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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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