Harold Wilson Quotes
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Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.
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I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.
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Yet people who benefit from all this now viciously defy Westminster, purporting to act as though they were an elected government; people who spend their lives sponging on Westminster and British democracy and then systematically assault democratic methods. Who do these people think they are?
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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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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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We have not been pushed around either abroad or at home and we are not going to be. This is government of the people; it is government for all the people, and the accent is on government.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.
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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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The Smethwick Conservatives can have the satisfaction of having topped the poll, and of having sent here as their Member one who, until a further General Election restores him to oblivion, will serve his term here as a Parliamentary leper
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I have always said about Tony Benn that he immatures with age.
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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
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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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I know I speak for everyone in these islands, all parties, all our people, when I say to Mr. Smith tonight: 'Prime Minister, think again'.
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
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We have taken steps which have not been taken by any other democratic government in the world. We are taking steps with regard to prices and wages which no other government, even in wartime, has taken.
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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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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 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'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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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. pause I'm going on, and the Labour government's going on.
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The period of 15 years from the last time we were in Scarborough, in 1960, to the middle of the 1970s, will embrace a period of technical change, particularly in industrial methods, greater than the whole of the industrial revolution of the last 250 years.
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A week is a long time in politics.