I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night’s sleep.
HAROLD WILSONTories 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.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
-
-
The labour party is like a stage-coach.
HAROLD WILSON -
We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …
HAROLD WILSON -
The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
HAROLD WILSON -
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.
HAROLD WILSON -
Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.
HAROLD WILSON -
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.
HAROLD WILSON -
I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
HAROLD WILSON -
One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
HAROLD WILSON -
The ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.
HAROLD WILSON -
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.
HAROLD WILSON -
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 WILSON -
[Criticizing as “appalingly complacent” a Conservative Government report that by the ’60s, Britain would be producing all the scientists needed] Of course we shall.
HAROLD WILSON -
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 WILSON -
Every dog is allowed one bite, but a different view is taken of a dog that goes on biting all the time. He may not get his licence returned when it falls due.
HAROLD WILSON -
If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I’d have it tinned. With vinegar.
HAROLD WILSON