Latest Jeremy Corbyn Quotes from Interviews

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• You should never be so high and mighty you can't listen to somebody else and learn something from them. Leadership is as much about using the ear as using the mouth.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• I believe in a democracy and we live in a democracy. We have a titular head of state as the monarch but without political power.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Believe, Political, Democracy

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• I'm not a dictator who writes things to tell people what to do.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Writing, People, Dictator

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• My wife is Mexican and my constituency is very, very multicultural.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Wife, Mexican, Multicultural

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

• I decided to invite Donald Trump on his visit to Britain to come with me to my constituency because he has problems with Mexicans and he has problems with Muslims.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Problem, Trump, Britain

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

• The people of Aleppo have suffered like no one else for so long. There has to be a political solution.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Long, People, Political

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

• I would have set out very quickly the relationship with Europe.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Europe

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

• Sorry, but we live in a democracy and the Government has to be responsive to Parliament.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Sorry, Government, Democracy

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

• Labour Party members must all be free to criticise and oppose injustice and abuse wherever we find it.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Party, Abuse, Injustice

  "Jeremy Corbyn antisemitism speech in full: Labour leader vows to stamp out 'hateful language or debate' The Labour leader welcomed a response recommending immediate action for the Labour" by Lizzie Dearden, www.independent.co.uk. June 30, 2016.

• I was democratically elected leader of our party for a new kind of politics by 60% of Labour members and supporters, and I will not betray them by resigning. Today's vote on Brexit has no constitutional legitimacy.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Party, Leader, Today

  " Labour MPs prepare for leadership contest after Corbyn loses confidence vote" by Anushka Asthana, Rajeev Syal, Jessica Elgot, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2016.

• Other human rights atrocities from African slavery to the killing fields of Cambodia, the Armenian and Rwandan Genocides are all of course to be remembered, but diluting their particularity or comparing degrees of evil does no good.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Rights, Evil, Atrocities

  "Jeremy Corbyn antisemitism speech in full: Labour leader vows to stamp out 'hateful language or debate' The Labour leader welcomed a response recommending immediate action for the Labour" by Lizzie Dearden, www.independent.co.uk. June 30, 2016.

• I also recognise that the mandate was given by hundreds of thousands of ordinary people joining in the political process.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Joining In, People, Political

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

• If every human rights atrocity is described as a Holocaust,[Adolf] Hitler's attempted obliteration of the Jewish people is diminished or de-recognised in our history.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Rights, People, Holocaust

• 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.

• I will continue - as Labour Leader - to pursue the causes of peace and justice in Israel-Palestine, the wider Middle East and all over the world. But those who claim to do so with hateful or inflammatory language do no service to anyone, especially dispossessed and oppressed people in need of better advocacy.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Israel, People, Justice

  "Jeremy Corbyn antisemitism speech in full: Labour leader vows to stamp out 'hateful language or debate' The Labour leader welcomed a response recommending immediate action for the Labour" by Lizzie Dearden, www.independent.co.uk. June 30, 2016.

• The point in the report is that you shouldn't say to somebody just because they're Jewish, you must have an opinion on Israel. Any more than you say to anyone who is a Muslim you must have an opinion on any vile action that's been taken by misquoting the good name of Islam. I just ask people to be respectful and inclusive in their debate.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Taken, Israel, Names

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

• United we stand, divided we fall is one of the oldest and truest slogans of the Labour movement.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Fall, Labour Movement, United

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

• Labour has the responsibility to give a lead where the government will not. We need to bring people together, hold the government to account, oppose austerity and set out a path to exit that will protect jobs and incomes.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Jobs, Responsibility, Government

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

• Our Jewish friends are no more responsible for the actions of Israel or the Netanyahu government than our Muslim friends are for those of various self-styled Islamic states or organisations.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Islamic, Government, Israel

  "Jeremy Corbyn launches antisemitism report amid controversy" by Harriet Sherwood, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2016.

• Of course I want to be [prime minister].

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Want, Prime, Ministers

  "Jeremy Corbyn faces shadow cabinet mutiny over Trident". www.telegraph.co.uk. September 30, 2015.

• Margaret [Hodge] is obviously entitled to do what she wishes to do. I would ask her to think for a moment, a Tory prime minister resigned, Britain's voted to leave the European Union, there are massive political issues to be addressed, is it really a good idea to start a big debate in the Labour Party when I was elected less than a year ago with a very large mandate not from MPs, I fully concede and understand that, but from the party members as a whole.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Party, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

• Of course I want to lead [Tory] party. Of course I want to lead this party in order to put forward an alternative and lead this party to win the election as soon as it comes.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Party, Winning, Order

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

• I'm carrying on. I'm making the case for unity, I'm making the case of what Labour can offer to Britain, of decent housing for people, of good secure jobs for people, of trade with Europe and of course with other parts of the world. Because if we don't get the trade issue right we've got a real problem in this country.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Country, Jobs, Real

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

• I think the issue will come up after the election of the new Tory leader. They may well decide to call an election. What the British people need now is stability. Stability to retain their jobs, stability to protect those working conditions, and we need a plan from this government now on how they're going to approach the negotiations for leaving the European Union before they invoke Article 50.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Jobs, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

• I don't make personal abuse against anybody, I don't mind personal remarks.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Abuse, Mind, Remarks

  Source: www.bbc.com