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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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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'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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I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.
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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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All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
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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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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'm a democrat - I don't support Bush, I don't support Blair, I don't support Bin Laden.
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