I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
HAROLD WILSONWe are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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I’m at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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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 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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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I’d have it tinned. With vinegar.
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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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Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.
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Over and above communication and vigilance, there are two factors I have always mentioned. They are sleep, and a sense of history.
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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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The labour party is like a stage-coach.
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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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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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I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night’s sleep.
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The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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