Labour Party Quotes - Page 3

• The question Tony Blair should be reflecting on this weekend is having achieved this, having secured his place in the history of the Labour Party and the history of Britain, whether now might be a better time to let a new leader in who could then achieve the unity we need if we are going to go forward.

  Robin Cook

  Party, Weekend, Leader

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• No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high. Whigs and Tories, Liberal party and Labour party - for what do they battle except their own prestige? It is not love of truth but desire to prevail that sets quarter against quarter and makes subserviency rather than the triumph of truth and the exaltation of virtue - but these moralities belong, and should be left to the historian, since they are as dull as ditch water.

  Virginia Woolf

  Party, Believe, Passion

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It would be as unthinkable to try to construct the Labour Party without Marx as it would to be to establish university faculties of astronomy,anthropology or psychology without permitting the study of Copernicus, Darwin or Freud, and still expect such faculties to be taken seriously

  Tony Benn

  Party, Taken, Psychology

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• She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Party, Independent, Heard

  Evelyn Waugh (1958). “Vile Bodies”, p.23, Obelix Books

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• My own view is that if you filled every member of the parliamentary Labour party with a truth drug and lashed them to a polygraph lie detector, very, very few of them would support foundation hospitals.

  Frank Dobson

  Lying, Party, Views

  "The unofficial opposition: furry, fearless and perfectly Frank" by Jackie Ashley, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2003.

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• You can't win with some people. If you're not in government, you're criticised for being not serious. If you are in government, you're criticised for wanting power. That's the Labour party's line of attack, and it's a bit ridiculous.

  Vince Cable

  Party, Winning, Government

  "Vince Cable: 'What we're managing is quite a difficult situation'" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. August 9, 2010.

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• I deeply regret the damage which recent publicity has brought to the Labour Party. However, I reject any suggestion of intentional wrongdoing on my part.

  Wendy Alexander

  Regret, Party, Suggestions

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• The Labour Party is going about the country stirring up apathy.

  William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw

  Country, Party, Political

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• In my view it is better for the Labour Party, the leadership and the new prime minister that he be given the maximum flexibility.

  John Richard Reid

  Party, Views, Ministers

  "Reid to resign with Blair". www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2007.

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• I've been on the left of the Party since I joined it about 1934 and I haven't seen much reason for altering... I have always been a strong libertarian both inside the Labour Party and outside... what I want to seek to do over a period of course is to establish a Socialist society.

  Michael Foot

  Strong, Party, Want

  BBC's "Panorama", March 22, 1976.

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• I know that the right kind of leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine who must not in any way permit himself to be swayed by indignation. If he sees suffering, privation or injustice he must not allow it to move him, for that would be evidence of the lack of proper education or of absence of self-control. He must speak in calm and objective accents and talk about a dying child in the same way as he would about the pieces inside an internal combustion engine.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Children, Party, Moving

  In Michael Foot 'Aneurin Bevan' (1973) vol. 2, ch. 11

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• I come from a generation of sceptics, who do not believe what politicians say. The Labour Party wants to convince people through actions, not words. The Nationalist party have given the country 25 years of lies, the Labour Party will build the country anew.

  Joseph Muscat

  Country, Lying, Party

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• Is Tony Blair of the Labour party? The answer to that is profoundly 'yes', but that is not how, sentimentally, he is regarded in the Labour movement generally.

  Neil Kinnock

  Party, Labour Movement, Answers

  "'He's a bastard but he's our bastard'". Interview with Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2007.

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• I joined the Labour party because I believed in equality, in freedom of speech and in tolerance, compassion and understanding for people, irrespective of their background and views. In whatever I decide to do in the future I will hold to those principles.

  Geoff Hoon

  Party, Compassion, Views

  "Geoff Hoon to stand down at general election" by Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2010.

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• I've never known a time when the in-fighting in the Labour Party was so bitter.

  Roy Hattersley

  Party, Fighting, Bitter

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• The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists.

  Johann Lamont

  Party, Views, Body

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• The British Labour Party has always had a very strong "Atlanticist component," with an obsequiousness to American policies, and Blair represents this wing. He's clearly obsessed with Iraq. He has to be because the overwhelming majority of the people of Britain oppose a military action. I've never known a situation like it.

  John Pilger

  Strong, Military, Party

  Source: progressive.org

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• Of course we as Labour Party members must all be free to criticise and oppose injustice and abuse wherever we find it. But as today's Report recommends, can we please leave Hitler and Nazi metaphors alone (especially in the context of Israel). Why? Because the Shoah is still in people's family experience.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Party, Israel, People

  "Jeremy Corbyn antisemitism speech in full: Labour leader vows to stamp out 'hateful language or debate'" by Lizzie Dearden, www.independent.co.uk. June 30, 2016.

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• The comments by the Leader of the Labour Party [Jeremy Corbyn] at the launch, however they were intended, are themselves offensive, and rather than rebuilding trust among the Jewish community, are likely to cause even greater concern.

  Ephraim Mirvis

  Party, Community, Leader

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• Writing a book about Jeremy Corbyn, set out with two objectives. The first was simple: to explain how he became the leader of the Labour Party. I was disappointed - but not at all surprised - at the complete absence of intellectual curiosity on display. The second objective I had to try to capture for posterity the excitement and spirit of the first Corbyn campaign. Those moments when the impossible suddenly becomes possible are so powerful to those who experience them. I think it's politically valuable to relive such moments, to learn the lessons of what went right.

  Alex Nunns

  Powerful, Party, Book

  Source: salvage.zone

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• Thatcher had broken the miners' union, all but crushed the Labour Party, dramatically cut back the welfare state, even flirted with a poll tax. In the circles I ran in, Reagan was mocked as a childish dolt. Thatcher was despised.

  Jon Weisman

  Party, Cutting, Circles

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In the Members' Dining Room, the Conservatives eat at one end, the Labour Party at the other, while the Liberals wait at table.

  Gyles Brandreth

  Party, Waiting, Rooms

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• It is time Britain put its trust back into the Labour Party. I believe I am the candidate that can make this happen precisely because I am not associated with the past.

  Diane Abbott

  Party, Believe, Past

  "Interview: Diane Abbott, Candidate for British Labour Party Leader". Interview with Kim Pearson, www.blogher.com.

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• There are plenty of people who don't want change - the Labour Party, some of their militant trade union friends like Unite busy causing strikes at the very beginning of a fragile recovery.

  George Osborne

  Party, Recovery, People

  Source: blog.moneysavingexpert.com

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• I want a Labour Party that is more democratic, more open and listens to its members.

  Diane Abbott

  Party, Want, Members

  "Interview: Diane Abbott, Candidate for British Labour Party Leader". Interview with Kim Pearson, www.blogher.com.

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