76 Quotes by Harold Wilson

In politics a week is a very long time.

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.

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.

All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.

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.

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.

It is quite clear to me that the Tory Party will get rid of Mrs Thatcher in about 3 years time.

The ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.

Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.