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.
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.
More Harold Wilson Quotes
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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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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Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
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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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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.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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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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We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …
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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
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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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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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