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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
Diarist
Former Member Of The European Parliament
Politician
Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn
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Broadcasters
Broadcasting
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The thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much.
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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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I do not share the general view that market forces are the basis for political liberty. Every time I see a homeless person living in a cardboard box in London, I see that person as a victim of market forces. Everytime I see a pensioner who cannot manage, I know that he is a victim of market forces
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The Establishment decided Thatcher's ideas were safer with a strong Blair government than with a weak Major government. We are given all these personalities to choose between to disguise the fact that the policies are the same.
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I am a public library
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I'm a democrat - I don't support Bush, I don't support Blair, I don't support Bin Laden.
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If ever I left the House of Commons it would be because I wanted to spend more time on politics.
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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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The one thing that is absolutely essential is that there shouldn't be any governmental control [of the media] directly or indirectly.
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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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Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.
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There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up.
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When you think of the number of men in the world who hate each other, why, when two men love each other, does the church split?
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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
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When you get to No 10, you've climbed there on a little ladder called 'the status quo'. And when you are there, the status quo looks very good
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There is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. Both kill innocent people for political reasons.
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It is not surprising that more and more people are coming to the conclusion that the ballot box is no longer an instrument that will secure political solutions... They can see that the parliamentary democracy we boast of is becoming a sham.
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The New York Times said, There are two superpowers in the world: the United States and the world peace movement.
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My alternative to American superpower is the UN and I might add when China becomes the worlds greatest superpower you will need it too.
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If you're going to make sense of politics you have to have a historical perspective and also recognise that you have to work with people you don't agree with.
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