One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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.
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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 going on, and the Labour government’s going on.
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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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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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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 Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …
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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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In politics a week is a very long time.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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The labour party is like a stage-coach.
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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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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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The Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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