Neil Kinnock Quotes

In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country.

You may see the emergence of a new political party from the body of the trade union movement which represents a very clear-cut socialist alternative policy and which gives expression to the views of the trade union movement in parliament.

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

I didn't call for a ballot at the start of the miners' strike in 1984. I'll regret that until my dying day.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

The clash between capital and labour, between those seeking to maximise profit and those with only their toil to sell, was the driving force for the creation of the trade unions in the 19th century.

There is no doubt that this government and this country are benefiting from the reforms that we brought in the 1980s, and that couldn't have been done without the co-operation of the trade union movement.

Arthur Scargill's leadership of the miners' strike has been a disgrace. The price to be paid for his folly will be immense. He will have destroyed the N.U.M. as an effective fighting force within British trade unionism for the next 20 years. If kamikaze pilots were to form their own union, Arthur would be an ideal choice for leader.

The setting of 'Billy Elliot' is the British miners' strike of 1984-85, about which the average American playgoer knows absolutely nothing.

I've been really clear that my first job as leader of the Labour Party and co-leader of the labour movement is to engage with our base.

Many of those who helped to lay the foundations of the trade union movement were men who had been through the experience of Socialism and found their way to sounder policies.

Trade unionism means the enslavement of the workers by the bourgeoisie.

The Clarion will convert England to Socialism in seven years. British working classes are not fit for Socialism yet.

The man [Richard Nixon] has no style. No style at all.

I've known Don since he came to Washington. When he first came to work for George W. Bush, he was a different Don Rumsfeld. He was jolly, full of life, and ready to go to war, but only if we could win.

Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and the Second World War, a generation that dominated left-wing politics for almost a century.

I grew up among heroes who went down the pit, who played rugby, told stories, sang songs of war.

We need a Donald Trump more than we've ever needed anybody since George Washington.

I got nothing against Barack Obama; I just might not like some of his policies and the people he surrounds himself with.

We need a commander in chief not a professor of law standing at a lectern - the lectern.

I can only tell you this and I used to speak about it all the time, we have a Navy that hasn't been in this position since World War I.

If women ran the world there would be no wars. However every 28 days there would be some very intense negotiations.

The Prime Minister wins debate after debate and loses battle after battle. The country is beginning to say that he fights debates like a war and the war like a debate.

Why don't presidents fight the war? - Why do they always send the poor?

Hillary Clinton has been The Smartest Woman in the World in her circle since 1970 when she went away to college.