The flag of radicalism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago over Dachau and Belsen.
I’ve been a member of the Labour Party sixty five years, and I remain in it, but I think it’s all about campaigning for justice and peace, and if you do that, you get a lot of support.
An MP is the only job where you have 70,000 employers, and only one employee.
The present combination of corporate or commercial control theoretically answerable to politically appointed Boards of Governors is not in any sense a democratic enough procedure to control the power the broadcasters have.
The Internet is only the street corner meeting on a big scale.
I do not share the general view that market forces are the basis of personal liberty.
The 1973 Labour Conference will have before it the most radical programme the Party has prepared since 1945.
Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.
She believes in something. It is an old-fashioned idea.
Marxism is now a world faith and must be allowed to enter into a continuous dialogue with other world faiths, including religious faiths.
It is wholly wrong to blame Marx for what was done in his name, as it is to blame Jesus for what was done in his.
In developing our industrial strategy for the period ahead, we have the benefit of much experience. Almost everything has been tried at least once.
Britain’s continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation.
The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it.
I try to operate on two unconnected levels. One on the practical level of action in which I am extremely cautious and conservative. The second is the realm of ideas where I try to be very free.
Some of the jam we thought was for tomorrow, we’ve already eaten.
If the Queen can reject the advice of a minister on a little thing like a postage stamp, what would happen if she rejected the advice of the Prime Minister on a major matter? If the Crown personally can reject advice, then, of course, the whole democratic facade turns out to be false.
I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner.
There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons.
Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.