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Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.

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Tony Benn
Age: 88 †
Born: 1925
Born: April 3
Died: 2014
Died: March 14
Autobiographer
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Former Member Of The European Parliament
Politician
Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn
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Broadcasters
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I'd rather die on my feet making a speech than die of Alzheimer's - and that's what I'm planning to do.
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No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his or her hands. Nor does any American President have power approaching this
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A faith is something you die for a doctrine is something you kill for there is all the difference in the world.
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Workers are not going to be fobbed off with a few shares...or by a carbon copy of the German system of co-determination.
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There is good and bad in all of us and the Church uses the idea of original sin to control us by saying that, if we do not obey the bishops, we will rot in Hell.
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There may be a legal obligation to obey, but there will be no moral obligation to obey. When it comes to history, it will be the people who broke the law for freedom who will be remembered and honoured.
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When Blair was elected leader of the Labour Party, he said, New Labour is a new political party - that was the phrase he used, and I'm so glad he said it because he set up his own party and I'm not a member of it.
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I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.
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Cabinet members are soon overwhelmed by the insistent demands of running their departments. On the whole, a period in high office consumers intellectual capital it does not create it....The less ministers know at the outset, the more dependent they are on the only sources of available knowledge the permanent officials.
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It is tempting to deny, but if you deny you confirm what you won't deny.
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An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.
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The way a government treats refugees is very instructive.
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If I rescued a child from drowning, the press would no doubt headline the story: 'Benn grabs child
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Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.
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When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia.
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The Tory party is the enemy of democracy.
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Democracy is not just voting every 5 years and watching 'Big Brother' in between and wondering why nothing happens. Democracy is what we do and say where we live and work
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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
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Remember, imperialism is always presented as humanitarian: the white man's burden, the cross going round the world, the poor benighted natives, the sun never sets. . . So you have to be very careful about humanitarianism.
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The quickest way to get to the top in society probably is to be a Blair Babe now. And then all of a sudden you find you're invited to parties. I don't want to be cynical, because I'm not. But I've seen it happen to so many people who move from the left to the right so damn quickly.
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