It is quite clear to me that the Tory Party will get rid of Mrs Thatcher in about 3 years time.
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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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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I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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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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I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night’s sleep.
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The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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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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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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We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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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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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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All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.
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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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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.
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One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.
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In politics a week is a very long time.
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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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[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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We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution …
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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 we don’t give science its proper place in our national life. We shall no doubt be training all the bullfighters we need, because we don’t use many.
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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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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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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
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