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.
HAROLD WILSONIn politics a week is a very long time.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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The labour party is like a stage-coach.
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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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We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution
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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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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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I’m at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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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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A week is a long time in politics.
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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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[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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