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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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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 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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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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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 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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If democracy is ever to be threatened, it will not be by revolutionary groups burning government offices and occupying the broadcasting and newspaper offices of the world. It will come from disenchantment, cynicism and despair caused by the realisation that the New World Order means we are all to be managed and not represented.
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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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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've made every mistake - but mistakes are how you learn.
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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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If you want your debt lifted you've got to sell your school and your hospitals.
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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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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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