Labour Party Quotes - Page 2

• In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England, the civil service, the CBI, the TUC, the Times, the Economist; that consensus was very strong.

  Ed Balls

  Strong, Party, Gold

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• People know where I stand in the Labour party and what I believe in.

  Tony Blair

  Party, Believe, People

  Interview with Martin Kettle, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2010.

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• My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.

  Johann Lamont

  Party, Fighting, Poverty

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• Is the Labour Party to remain a democratic party in which the right of free criticism and free debate is not merely tolerated but encouraged? Or are the rank and file of the party to be bludgeoned or cowed into an uncritical subservience towards the leadership?

  Michael Foot

  Party, Criticism, Debate

  Tribune, 1954.

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• I did meet Mickey Mouse in California, and he seems to be writing the Labour party's economic policy at the moment.

  George Osborne

  Party, Writing, California

  House of Commons, www.publications.parliament.uk. August 11, 2011.

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• Billions raised, billions spent. No idea where the money has gone. With a record like that the chancellor should be running for treasurer of the Labour Party.

  David Cameron

  Running, Party, Ideas

  "Put in a tight spot by the cat's backside" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2006.

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• We need people like me in the Labour party.

  Alan Johnson

  Party, People, Needs

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• They [the Labour Party] are not fit to manage a whelk stall.

  Winston Churchill

  Party, Political, Fit

  "The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill".

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• The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

  Harold Wilson

  Party, Political, Moral

  Speech at Labour Party Conference 1 Oct. 1962, in The Times 2 Oct. 1962

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• In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.

  Enoch Powell

  Party, Irony, Stranger

  The Sunday Telegraph, October 18, 1964.

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• The programme of the British Labour Party under Neil Kinnock is so wildly irresponsible, so separate and apart from the historic NATO strategy, that I think a Labour government that stood by its present policies - and I rather doubt that they would - would, if it didn't destroy the Alliance, at least diminish its effective ability to do the task for which it was created.

  Richard Perle

  Party, Thinking, Government

  The Times, September 25, 1986.

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• The Labour Party is the sister Party for the Democrats and their progressive views are the ones that we are most aligned with.

  Harriet Harman

  Party, Views, Progressive

  BBC's "Question Time", September 18, 2008.

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• The solution is not to reinvent ourselves, not to ape the Labour Party or the Liberal Democrats.

  Malcolm Rifkind

  Party, Apes, Democrat

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• Now, many of us in the Labour Party are conservationists - and we all love the red squirrel. But there is one ginger rodent which we never want to see again - Danny Alexander.

  Harriet Harman

  Party, Squirrels, Rodents

  "Harriet Harman Says 'Ginger Rodent' Comment Was Wrong". www.bbc.com. October 30, 2010.

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• I am in the Labour Party because I am a feminist. I am in the Labour Party because I believe in equality.

  Harriet Harman

  Party, Believe, Feminist

  The Times, November 10, 2007.

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• Civil Society is a cluster of institutions and associations strong enough to prevent tyranny, but which are, none the less, entered and left freely, rather than imposed by birth or sustained by awesome ritual. You can join the Labour Party without slaughtering a sheep.

  Ernest Gellner

  Strong, Party, Sheep

  Ernest Gellner (1994). “Conditions of liberty: civil society and its rivals”, Hamish Hamilton Ltd

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• We conceive the function of Tribune to be the expression in popular form, and to as large a public as possible, of the views of the Left and Marxist wing of social democracy in this country. Its policy must be that of those who believe that the present leadership of the Labour Party is not sufficiently Socialist.

  Anthony Crosland

  Country, Party, Believe

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