Harold Wilson Quotes

We will govern as if we had a majority. You simply carry on with your agenda.

To carry out my mission, I need a stable majority.

You have to govern like you've got a majority. It doesn't matter whether it's one seat, five or 10 seats.

The prime minister's job is to captain his team, his party and his government.

As long as there are only 3 to 4 people on the floor, the country is in good hands. It's only when you have 50 to 60 in the Senate that you want to be concerned.

Unified party control of the organs of government has proved no panacea.

There's nothing to be said for opposition. You can only talk about things and you can lay your plans. You can't actually achieve very much; you have to be in government for that.

It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself.

What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time, is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it.

The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.

The ruler who possesses methods of government does not follow the good that happens by chance but practices according to necessary principles. Law, methods, and power must be employed for government: these constitute its 'necessary principles.'

We have had political parties threatening to bring down the government, talking about it but not bringing down the government. What I am focused on is the things we are in control of. The timing of a general election, we don't have control over.

I cannot be any clearer, minority governments don't work.

BJP is not going to the people only to form a government. We have come to the people to give stability and a development oriented government.

We think the government is running the country, but it is just a policymaker. Unknowingly, people are inviting the government to run their lives. The only business of the government is to come up with the right policies.

When my father was the Prime Minister, was there any terrorist activity in this country? The entire country was calm at that time.

I want to be influential as a legislator.

I was a minister in the Vajpayee government. Atalji wanted to do so many things. But, since he was heading a coalition government, he could not do all those things.

I've seen at first-hand what Labour Governments can achieve in power.

Dictatorship is always merely an aria, never an opera.

I don't think that split government is a good idea. Conventional wisdom in Washington for years has been that divided government is good because of a check and a balance. What I believe happens all too often, regardless of which party is there's gridlock. And I think the better argument is give one party a chance, give them a chance with a House and a Senate and a president. Give them a few years to see what they can do. And if you don't like it, put another party in.

It must be a conviction Government. As Prime Minister I could not waste time having internal arguments.

Precedents are dangerous things; let the rein of government then be braced and held with a steady hand.

Government exists to create and preserve conditions in which people can translate their ideas into practical reality. In the best of times, much is lost in translation. But we try.

If India is computer, Congress is its default program.