A week is a long time in politics.
HAROLD WILSONThe Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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In politics a week is a very long time.
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We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …
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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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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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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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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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[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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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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If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.
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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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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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At home and abroad I have repeatedly been asked what are the main essentials of a successful prime minister.
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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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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.
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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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