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<blockquote>is working out the problems which are nearest my heart and that is the equalization of opportunity ... . The income tax, the employers' liability act, the old age pension measure, the budget of last year and this insurance bill puts England well to the fore. We have touched these problems in America but lightly as yet but the soil is fallow.<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g1IgBQAAQBAJ&q=colonel+house+old-age+pensions&pg=PA69 | title=Colonel House: A Biography of Woodrow Wilson's Silent Partner| isbn=9780195045505| last1=Neu| first1=Charles E.| year=2015}}</ref></blockquote>
House’s friend [[David F. Houston]] shared his interests in England and the continent, concluding in August 1911 that “England and Germany are doing many interesting things in a desirable socialistic direction. We shall follow slowly because of the newness of conditions here and the lack of pressure.”
<ref>[https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Colonel_House/g1IgBQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Houston+England+and+Germany+are+doing+many+interesting+things+in+a+desirable+socialistic+direction&pg=PA70&printsec=frontcover Colonel House A Biography of Woodrow Wilson's Silent Partner By Charles E. Neu, 2014, P.70]</ref>
==Adviser to Wilson==
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