John McDonnell Quotes

A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action.

We are all in the Labour party because we want the Labour party to be a vehicle for social change. There is a thirst for debate in the party, and all those who have joined haven't joined without a purpose.

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

The Union has become not merely a physical union of states, but rather a spiritual union in common ideals of our people. Within it is room for every variety of opinion, every possible experiment in social progress. Out of such variety comes growth, but only if we preserve and maintain our spiritual solidarity.

What the underdog socialist has forgotten is that the story of the left ought to be a narrative of hope and progress.

Labour will only survive in government if we can restore the sense of mission upon which it was founded.

The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.

We've got to stand up for what we believe in as a labour movement. And that means the party's membership needs to be even bigger so it becomes a genuinely mass organisation.

To be a member of the Labor Party is to be an optimist - optimistic about the future of Australia, optimistic about the ability of government to make a difference.

We must draw on our early roots and remind people why the Labour party was created and who it sought to represent. We have never been a sectional party promoting self-interest, but instead a force for engaging self-reliance and self-determination.

Speaking as a Democrat, all my life battling for what I conceived to be Democracy, and what I conceived to be right, I am yet an American above Democracy.

We will renew our party, to rebuild our land - and we will do it by being a better Labour, real Labour, Scottish Labour.

The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of their efforts, a Co-operative Commonwealth for Ireland.

The Socialist movement, the Labour movement, call it which you will, and the Women’s movement, are but different aspects of the same great force which has been, all through the ages, gradually pushing its way upwards, making for the reconstruction and regeneration of Society.

I came out of the womb into the Labour movement.

Hillary Clinton is the problem; she is not the solution to Donald Trump. We are the solution. We are the ones we've been waiting for. This is our moment. Together, we do have the power to create an America and a world that works for all of us.

Those who wish to promote the welfare of the people should advance in solidarity with them and select the path most suitable for them. Since the history of our people is different from that of the people of the West, the steps that the two peoples choose to take in order to advance must also be different.

The Democratic Party has been my party over 50 years, where I waged my battle to change America and change the world from its progressive wing.

We stand in the centre ground of the Labour party and our traditions. The policies we are advocating go right back to the beginning.

We are the workers' party. We are the party of the hard working individual.

Labour is the party for the many.

The Labour party is not perfect but I have seen in my own life how it is the greatest vehicle for positive hopeful social change.

The Labour party is a lost cause for anybody who is moderate and sensible and believes in that left-of-centre view of life.

All of us, as citizens, need to kind of get over our classisms and vote for the betterment of us all.

For me socialism has never been an intellectual pursuit. It comes from my upbringing and experience.