Tony Benn Quotes

We should put the spin-doctors in spin clinics, where they can meet other spin patients and be treated by spin consultants. The rest of us can get on with the proper democratic process.

It will be Blair, Blair, Blair just as it was Thatcher, Thatcher, Thatcher.

It is the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you are mad, then dangerous, then there’s a pause, and then you can’t find anyone who disagrees.

The dependence of London on Washington for the supply of our so-called independent nuclear weapons is all that remains of the ‘special relationship’ and…it is really a ball and chain limiting our capacity to play a more positive role in the world.

It is beginning to dawn on people that the influence of a nation is not measured by the size of its military budget, but by its industrial strength.

It is as wholly wrong to blame Marx for what was done in his name, as it is to blame Jesus for what was done in his.