Tony Benn Quotes

I would do whatever I could to make Jeremy Corbyn more electable, but you've got to give me something to work with, mate.

I... grew up in politics and I used to work for the Democratic Party.

Oh my God, don't ever start a political party. It's exhausting.

We created a new democratic Croatia, ... The HDZ is the strongest party in Croatia, and it achieved this not because of us politicians but because of you, the people of Croatia.

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

George W. Bush is not only a great president; he was a great candidate.

Well, I feel that everybody in the country knows me. I think people know who I am, and that I'm deputy leader of the Labour party, and that I'm out there talking about their big choice for the future.

What matters most in politics is personality. It's not issues; it's not image. It's who you are and what you represent.

That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion.

Democratic politics—that is modern mass politics—is a battlefield in which the most important move is that which decides what the battle is about, what the issue is.

Bigger Than His Party.

I really believed that Mike Huckabee had a vision for our country, and the more I was around him the more I was impressed by this man.

There are very good people in the Labour Party who I would like to see in leadership.

I have never had an interest in opinion polls. They are merely an indicator, that's all.

I have helped shape in the past the Democratic Party's agenda on innovation.

Tony Blair believed in a consumerist idea of democracy.

When Blair was elected leader of the Labour Party, he said, "New Labour is a new political party" - that was the phrase he used, and I'm so glad he said it because he set up his own party and I'm not a member of it.

No free country has ever been without Parties, which are a natural offspring of freedom.

A new poll out taken by a Republican group that shows most Democrats prefer socialism to capitalism. Those terms don't mean what they did maybe 40, 50 years ago.

The 1973 Labour Conference will have before it the most radical programme the Party has prepared since 1945.

I knew how to influence the people, but it's really just one vote. But the party is being handled in a very good way .

In the world at large we seldom vote for a principle or a given state of affairs. We vote for a man who pretends to believe in that principle or promises to achieve that state. We don't want a man, we want a condition of peace and plenty-- or, it may be, war and want-- but we must vote for a man.

I think his [Bernie Sanders] campaign was good for the Democratic Party, good for our country. And I know how passionate he is about the issues he cares about. So we'll have a long list of matters to discuss when we sit down.

The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.

The Labour Party is going about the country stirring up apathy.