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.
HAROLD WILSONAll these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
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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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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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Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.
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I’m at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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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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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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In politics a week is a very long time.
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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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Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
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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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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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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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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I’d have it tinned. With vinegar.
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