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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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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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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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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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I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.
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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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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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When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia.
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She believes in something. It is an old-fashioned idea
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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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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
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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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People in debt become hopeless and hopeless people don't vote. They always say that that everyone should vote but I think that if the poor in Britain or the United States turned out and voted for people that represented their interests there would be a real democratic revolution.
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Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.
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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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If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.
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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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When we have a majority we will do it. I think the days of the Lords are quite genuinely numbered.
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I've made every mistake - but mistakes are how you learn.
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An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.
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It is obvious I shall have to abandon my hopes of getting the Queen's head off the stamps.
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