Jess Phillips Quotes

My father was an ardent socialist for many years.

A lot of my father's generation were thinking about communism and had deep liberal and progressive connections. He never admitted whether he was a card-carrying communist party member but I think its possible.

I'm a real left-winger. I fancy Jeremy Corbyn!

I'm a socialist, and I'm not going to be ashamed to say it!

I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me.

Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left.

My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views.

No, I do not identify with the right wing.

I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.

My father was a socialist, so we had some of the most extraordinary people at home.

Jeremy Corbin is a little too liberal for me.

Liberals amuse me. I am a socialist.

The hard left is a very small section of the British population and I myself am not hard left. I am a traditional Labour left-winger.

Picasso is a communist. Neither am I.

The Labour party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it - a bit like Christians in the Church of England.

Being a Labour home secretary in the 21st century means fighting a constant battle against both extreme Right and Left.

I'm more socialist certainly than New Labour - I'm very old Labour, really.

I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.

I've never said I'm a communist.

Representative Spencer Bachus is one of the only people I know from Alabama. I bet I'm the only socialist he knows.

There is no reason why I should call myself a democrat.

He was a Communist.

I think there are a lot of people who, when they hear the word 'socialist,' get very, very nervous.

A political party is about an ideology. And I don't think my goals in politics can match the ideology of any political party.

My father, Charles Seeger, got me into the Communist movement. He backed out around '38. I drifted out in the 50's.