ROY JENKINS

The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilized society.

The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life.

Revolutions breeds its own excesses.

Violence is a great breeder of violence.

We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected.

There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.

The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered.

I am sure Mr Heath thinks he is honest but I wish he didn't have to have his friends say it so often.

The experimental plane may well finish up a few fields from the end of the runway. If that is so, the voluntary occupants will have only inflicted bruises or worse upon themselves. But the reverse may occur and the experimental plane soar into the sky.

Many of the early nationalisation measures were right. They have remained part of the social fabric. I favour measures of that type.

A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect.

We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected.

The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life.

I am sure Mr Heath thinks he is honest but I wish he didn't have to have his friends say it so often.

There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.

The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered.

Revolutions breeds its own excesses.

The experimental plane may well finish up a few fields from the end of the runway. If that is so, the voluntary occupants will have only inflicted bruises or worse upon themselves. But the reverse may occur and the experimental plane soar into the sky.

Violence is a great breeder of violence.

The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilized society.

Many of the early nationalisation measures were right. They have remained part of the social fabric. I favour measures of that type.

Each successive Labour Government has been the most rapacious, doctrinaire and unpatriotic conspiracy to be seen this side of the Iron Curtain.

I therefore believe that the politics of the left and centre of this country are frozen in an out-of-date mould which is bad for the political and economic health of Britain and increasingly inhibiting for those who live within the mould. Can it be broken?

I do not think you can push public expenditure significantly above 60 per cent and maintain the values of a plural society with adequate freedom of choice. We are here close to one of the frontiers of social democracy.

A substantial extension of public ownership is an essential pre-requisite of greater equality of earned income