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
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I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.
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What he proposes is, in my view ... unacceptable.
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On one side was contaminated and on our side (it) is absolutely. Oil, gas, anything -- I watched them walk out the back door and pour it out. I asked SCI to go over there and drill and they said no, they could only drill three holes. I saw the report from the EPA and I called Phil Harris (sic) and said, 'You're not telling the truth!'
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Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.
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When they tore that (gas station) down about six years ago, it affected my breathing for weeks.
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My friend, we don't support savages, we just allow them to come to our meetings,
bring game happy played
We did not bring our A game on offense. I was happy with how we played on defense.
This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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I moved in here 12 years ago to die. I was diagnosed with prostate cancer. I was told I had five years to live. I've been living on borrowed time for seven years.
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I followed the EPA and tried to get them to go over where all the gas was poured from the radiator shop,
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I have not always in my dealings with General de Gaulle found quotations from Trafalgar and Waterloo necessarily productive, and he has been very tactful about the Battle of Hastings.
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I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat.
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I'm not really concerned with how many points we gave up. That's fine for us. What we did, we didn't score on offense our own selves. I know they're a good defensive team, but our offense just wasn't clicking.
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I knew we had some good athletes, because I had had them in junior high, and I had won with them in junior high.