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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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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'm a democrat - I don't support Bush, I don't support Blair, I don't support Bin Laden.
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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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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 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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I have had the advantage of a radical Christian upbringing
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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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I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.
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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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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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If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.
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Although socialism is widely held by the establishment to be outdated, the things that are most popular in British society today are little pockets of socialism, where areas of life have been excluded from the crude operation of market forces and are protected for the benefit of the community
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There is no connection between imperialism and democracy. I mean when we ran an Empire which we did when I was born, there was no democracy anywhere.
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Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.
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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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When I saw how the European Union was developing, it was very obvious what they had in mind was not democratic. In Britain, you vote for a government so the government has to listen to you, and if you don't like it you can change it.
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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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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 you want your debt lifted you've got to sell your school and your hospitals.
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