Roy Jenkins
The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society.
I am sure Mr Heath thinks he is honest but I wish he didn't have to have his friends say it so often.
We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected.
A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect.
The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life.
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.
Inheritance Tax; - it is, broadly speaking; a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the Inland RevenueCollection: Inheritance
The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised societyCollection: Dirty
A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sectCollection: Party
The fact is that Harold Wilson is a person no one can like, a person without friends.Collection: Facts
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 slaughteredCollection: Party
I therefore believe that the politics of the left and centre of this country are frozen in an out-of-date mould which is bad for the political and economic health of Britain and increasingly inhibiting for those who live within the mould.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?Collection: Country
The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my lifeCollection: Party
Many of the early nationalisation measures were right. They have remained part of the social fabric. I favour measures of that type.Collection: Fabric
The most moving speech I have ever heard was Hugh Gaitskell saying he would 'fight, fight and fight again to save the party we love. That was the right message in 1960, and I believe it is still the right message today.Collection: Party
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.Collection: Thinking
There is a lot of talk about a centre party - and that I might lead it. I find this idea profoundly unattractiveCollection: Party
Each successive Labour Government has been the most rapacious, doctrinaire and unpatriotic conspiracy to be seen this side of the Iron Curtain.Collection: Government
We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is electedCollection: Peace
A substantial extension of public ownership is an essential pre-requisite of greater equality of earned incomeCollection: Essentials