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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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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
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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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I've made every mistake - but mistakes are how you learn.
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Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.
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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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If ever I left the House of Commons it would be because I wanted to spend more time on politics.
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Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
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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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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.
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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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Through me the energy policy of the whole Common Market is being held up. Without opening old wounds, it pleases me no end.
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I think to understand how the democratic process works is the most important thing, so people don't get frightened by it, and get put off, and give up.
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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 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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Some of the jam we thought was for tomorrow, we've already eaten
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An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.
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When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia.
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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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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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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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