HAROLD WILSON

If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.

I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.

I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.

I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.

The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.

A week is a long time in politics.

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.

We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.

I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night’s sleep.

One man's wage rise is another man's price increase.

Every dog is allowed one bite, but a different view is taken of a dog that goes on biting all the time.

The monarchy is a labor-intensive industry.

It does not mean of course that the pound here in Britain in your pocket has been devalued .

Tories never actually talk about getting rid of their leader, then suddenly there is a flash of steel between the shoulder-blades and rigormortis sets in.

DeGaulle says “Europe” but he means “France.”

Forty-eight hours is a long time in politics

We live in a scientific revolution. In such an epoch of revolutionary change, those who identity laissez-faire with liberty are enemies, however unwitting, of democracy

We are living in the jet-age, but we are governed by an Edwardian establishment mentality.

Since the war [WWII], the world has been rushing forward at an unprecedented and exhilarating speed … Yet Britain lags behind, lacking the will or the plan which can bring this future within the reach of us all.