I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
HAROLD WILSONI’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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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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In politics a week is a very long time.
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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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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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A week is a long time in politics.
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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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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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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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We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …
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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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The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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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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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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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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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution
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Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
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The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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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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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 labour party is like a stage-coach.
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I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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May I say, for the benefit of those who have been carried away by the gossip of the last few days, that I know what’s going on.
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