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I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.

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Tony Benn
Age: 88 †
Born: 1925
Born: April 3
Died: 2014
Died: March 14
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Former Member Of The European Parliament
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Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn
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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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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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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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The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it
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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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I don't want to commit myself in advocating a definite republican constitution which will get bogged down with the question of who would elect the President and when.
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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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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'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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Food movement organic food stores supplies health food products and facilitate with instrumental support in organic agriculture.
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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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I believe the more difficult the circumstances, the more people will be inclined to trust those in charge at the moment.
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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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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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If I rescued a child from drowning, the press would no doubt headline the story: 'Benn grabs child
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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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I am a public library
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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 now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.
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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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