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The way a government treats refugees is very instructive.

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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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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 am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.
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The Civil Service is a bit like a rusty weathercock. It moves with opinion then it stays where it is until another wind moves it in a different direction
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Democracy is not just voting every 5 years and watching 'Big Brother' in between and wondering why nothing happens. Democracy is what we do and say where we live and work
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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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Bush is actually encouraging the spread of nuclear weapons because the one thing I do know is if Iran did have nuclear weapons they wouldn't be threatening them.
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She believes in something. It is an old-fashioned idea
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I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.
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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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Cabinet members are soon overwhelmed by the insistent demands of running their departments. On the whole, a period in high office consumers intellectual capital it does not create it....The less ministers know at the outset, the more dependent they are on the only sources of available knowledge the permanent officials.
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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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An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.
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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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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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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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If you want your debt lifted you've got to sell your school and your hospitals.
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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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Workers are not going to be fobbed off with a few shares...or by a carbon copy of the German system of co-determination.
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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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If you read Mein Kampf, Hitler's book, which I have outside, I bought it when I was eleven, Hitler said, democracy inevitably leads to Marxism - now you work that one out. It's so interesting that when the poor have the vote they will use it to remove the privileges of the rich.
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