Harold Wilson
Harold Wilson
James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, PC, FRS, FSSwas a British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1964 to 1970 and 1974 to 1976...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth11 March 1916
struggle survival ministry
With the ministry's motto 'Research on a Shoestring' emblazoned on his coat of arms, he has to struggle with a treasury more interested in surtax relief than national survival. [Responding to an earlier statement by British Science Minister, Lord Hailsham, that British scientists were being recruited by the U.S.]
government house want
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.
middle messy middle-of-the-road
I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
choices vinegar salmon
If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
science government giving
[Criticizing as "appalingly complacent" a Conservative Government report that by the '60s, Britain would be producing all the scientists needed] Of course we shall, 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.
time long politics
In politics a week is a very long time.
littles hearing eras
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.
zimbabwe might matter
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.
business littles hearing
All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.
party office political
Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
men design ruthlessness
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.
should-have flying chance
Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.
pay members-of-parliament harlots
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.
good-night believe sleep
I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.