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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
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Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn
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Broadcasters
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If you want your debt lifted you've got to sell your school and your hospitals.
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Anyone from abroad will tell you that it is the class system that really lies at the root of our problems, economic and industrial. The House of Lords symbolises that.
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The First World War created the Second World War because that was a war between three grandsons of Queen Victoria: The King of England, the Kaiser and the Tsar married Queen Victoria's granddaughter. And that triggered Communism in Russia and Fascism in Germany and led to the Second World War.
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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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It is tempting to deny, but if you deny you confirm what you won't deny.
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I opposed the Suez war, I opposed the Falklands war. I opposed the Libyan bombing and I opposed the Gulf war and I never believed that any of those principled arguments lost a single vote - indeed, I think they gained support though that was not why you did it. What has been lacking in Labour politics over a long period is a principled stand
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I have had the advantage of a radical Christian upbringing
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If democracy is ever to be threatened, it will not be by revolutionary groups burning government offices and occupying the broadcasting and newspaper offices of the world. It will come from disenchantment, cynicism and despair caused by the realisation that the New World Order means we are all to be managed and not represented.
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When I saw how the European Union was developing, it was very obvious what they had in mind was not democratic. In Britain, you vote for a government so the government has to listen to you, and if you don't like it you can change it.
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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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An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.
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The police are controlled by the whites, the media are controlled by the whites, the army's controlled by the whites, what hope is there for change? Administration changes from underneath.
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The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain.
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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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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
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Choice depends on the freedom to choose and if you are shackled with debt you don't have the freedom to choose.
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The peace movement didn't stop the Iraq but I think that Blair would not be able to go along and support an Iranian war.
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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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There is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. Both kill innocent people for political reasons.
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I'm interested in language. We used to call it the War Office. Then it became the Ministry of Defence. We used to talk about the hydrogen bomb, now we talk about a deterrent. And the language is very cleverly constructed to give the impression that it's not what it is.
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