A week is a long time in politics.
HAROLD WILSONOver and above communication and vigilance, there are two factors I have always mentioned. They are sleep, and a sense of history.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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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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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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[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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I get a little nauseated, perhaps, when I hear the phrase ‘freedom of the press’ used as freely as it is, knowing that a large part of our proprietorial press is not free at all.
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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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From now on, the pound abroad is worth 14 per cent or so less in terms of other currencies. That doesn’t mean, of course, that the Pound here in Britain, in your pocket or purse or in your bank, has been devalued.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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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.
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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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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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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.
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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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