Top 100 Quotes About Jeremy Corbyn
#1. Labour voters are crying out for effective leadership.I'm afraid I don't think Jeremy [Corbyn]can provide it.
Jeremy Corbyn
#2. I've supported Jeremy Corbyn all the way along because I think that was the right thing to do. I've reluctantly reached the conclusion that his position is untenable.
Ed Miliband
#3. Jeremy Corbyn had shown a catastrophic failure of leadership and must step down to make way for someone with the backbone to confront racism and anti-Semitism.
Ruth Smeeth
#4. Corbyn's words imply a serious lack of moral judgement. Just as all Muslims are not to blame for ISIS, not all Brits are to blame for [Jeremy] Corbyn.
Tzipi Livni
#5. I don't think Jeremy Corbyn's going to stay, he's going to go. He knows parliamentary party have no faith in him.
Gordon Brown
#6. I was verbally attacked by a Momentum activist and Jeremy Corbyn supporter who used traditional antisemitic slurs to attack me for being part of a 'media conspiracy'.
Ruth Smeeth
#7. The comments by the Leader of the Labour Party [Jeremy Corbyn] at the launch, however they were intended, are themselves offensive, and rather than rebuilding trust among the Jewish community, are likely to cause even greater concern.
Ephraim Mirvis
#8. If you look at the other people around at the time - Charles Clarke, Alistair Darling, Jack Straw - they've all gone. And they're not old. What's happened is that someone who is quite old - Jeremy Corbyn - is now leader. We have to take some responsibility for that.
Alastair Campbell
#9. Jeremy [Corbyn] earned the right to take up the leadership of the party with a big majority. But he has failed and he has no right or mandate to stay in office despite his failure and take the party down with him.
Harriet Harman
#10. I think we should all be accountable to our parties, but I also think that accountability should be a process of engagement: that MPs do engage with their constituency parties, do engage with their constituents, and MPs do change their minds on things because of local opinion.
Jeremy Corbyn
#12. Diversity in media is something that is intrinsic to a democratic society. We do not want the whole media owned by one person.
Jeremy Corbyn
#13. We can create a new kind of politics: kinder, more respectful, but courageous, too.
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#14. Quite simply, I maintained contact with Sinn Fein and believed that there had to be a political, not a military, solution to the situation in Northern Ireland.
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#15. Parliament is supposed to be serious. It's not a place for jingoistic cheering.
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#16. I want everyone to put their views forward, every union branch, every party branch, so we develop organically the strengths we all have, the imagination we all have.
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#17. Labour has the responsibility to give a lead where the government will not. We need to bring people together, hold the government to account, oppose austerity and set out a path to exit that will protect jobs and incomes.
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#18. I don't respond in any way to personal abuse that is thrown at me.
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#19. We are developing a media policy which would be about breaking up single ownership of too many sources of information so that we have a multiplicity of sources.
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#20. Everybody aspires to an affordable home, a secure job, better living standards, reliable healthcare and a decent pension. My generation took those things for granted, and so should future generations.
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#21. The idea that somehow or other you can deal with all the problems in the world by banning a particular religious group from entering the U.S.A. is offensive and absurd.
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#22. I understand the principles of dissent in parliament.
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#23. My view is the questions in Parliament should be the questions that people out there want asked.
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#24. I still have the Triumph Palm Beach I was given for Christmas when I was 11. By today's standards, it is heavy and slow, but was my pride and joy at the time.
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#25. I want to see a more collective style in how our party operates, in politics as a whole.
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#26. I think we should talk about what the objectives of the party are, whether that's restoring the Clause Four as it was originally written or it's a different one, but I think we shouldn't shy away from public participation, public investment in industry, and public control of the railways.
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#27. I've got lots of stamina; don't worry about that. I cycle every day - it's OK.
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#28. I find if you are in an office, the crisis finds you. If you're not in the office, the crisis finds somebody else.
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#29. Obsession with the market seem to prevent ministers looking at the huge problem and all its ramifications in health, education and employment that come from the housing insecurity that too many face.
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#30. It is a ludicrous statistic plucked out of the air and used to justify a quite appalling attack on many of the poorest people in this country.
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#31. Sure, I've met with people I don't agree with.
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#32. Inequality is a terrible waste of time, a waste of people's resources.
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#33. It is important that politicians defend their ability to act without fear or favour, and it is in the public interest that they hold ministers and public servants to account.
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#34. I think we can spend too much time worrying about polls.
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#35. There is not going to be a peace process unless there is talks involving Israel, Hezbollah and Hamas, and I think everyone knows that.
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#36. It is the right of a democratically elected parliament to act in defence of our traditional liberties, and everything should be done to keep it that way.
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#37. We are not doing celebrity, personality, abusive politics - we are doing ideas. This is about hope.
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#38. The Parliamentary Labour Party is a crucial and very important part of the Labour party, but it is not the entirety of the Labour Party.
Jeremy Corbyn
#39. The Spanish Civil War, Britain was not involved in it. Going back a bit, there was the naval blockade to stop the slave trade in the 19th century; that was morally just. Shame they didn't bother to abolish slavery at the same time.
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#41. Tony Benn and I were very close, very close friends for 30, 40 years. We talked to each other a great deal, and we were great friends. And I was with him shortly before he died, talking about prospects of the world and prospects for peace. And I'm very sad that he's gone.
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#42. I haven't had vast amounts of ministerial experience - in fact, none at all. But I do have a lot of experience of people.
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#43. If you want a more productive economy, you need to invest in the skills of our workforce.
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#44. Like a majority of the population and a majority of even Tory voters, I want the railways back in public ownership.
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#45. Basically, on the question of Europe, I want to see a social Europe, a cohesive Europe, a coherent Europe, not a free market Europe.
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#46. I've been quite involved in a lot of U.N. operations over the years. I was a U.N. observer at the East Timor referendum in 2000. I've been very involved in that for a long time.
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#47. Loyalty is about the party and the movement ... if you want a better and more effective party, we've got to open ourselves up much more to our membership and our supporters.
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#48. 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.
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#49. NATO expansion and Russian expansion - one leads to the other, and one reflects the other.
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#50. Local authorities face huge housing issues with demands outstripping supply many times over; the only way those in housing need can be housed is in the private sector.
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#51. I was democratically elected leader of our party for a new kind of politics by 60% of Labour members and supporters, and I will not betray them by resigning. Today's vote on Brexit has no constitutional legitimacy.
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#52. I believe in public ownership, but I have never favoured the remote nationalised model of the postwar era.
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#53. There are some people who have had no pay rises for a very long time, and, working in highly skilled and highly responsible roles and in the health services and education, they deserve to be properly remunerated.
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#54. A lot of people didn't feel attracted to Labour, so they voted in desperation for other things.
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#55. Taken slightly historically, the turning point in the E.U. was actually the Single European Act, the Thatcher/Maastricht-era stuff, which was turning the E.U. into very much a market system.
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#56. A national investment bank can invest to provide us with the foundations of shared and ecologically sustainable growth: renewing the U.K.'s energy, digital and transport infrastructure which lags woefully behind other major economies.
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#57. I don't make personal abuse against anybody, I don't mind personal remarks.
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#58. For the absolute avoidance of doubt, my leadership will be about unity, drawing on all the talents - with women representing half of the shadow cabinet - and working together at every level of the party.
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#59. I have dealt with a pretty interesting mix of young people, many of whom have never been involved in any form of politics at any level who are interested in alternatives to austerity and debt, and older people who left the Labour party, mainly over Iraq, who are coming back in.
Jeremy Corbyn
#60. Politically active people felt more and more disenfranchised, particularly during the ultra-New Labour years.
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#61. I have always had a very busy life. The difference is that a lot more people are helping advise me what to do, and a lot more people are observing what I do. But in terms of time and working schedule, it is not that different from my normal working week.
Jeremy Corbyn
#62. I've been in Parliament since 1983, and I've been involved in many issues over the time.
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#63. Riding a bicycle is the summit of human endeavour - an almost neutral environmental effect coupled with the ability to travel substantial distances without disturbing anybody. The bike is the perfect marriage of technology and human energy.
Jeremy Corbyn
#64. I am just an ordinary person trying to do an ordinary job.
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#65. To give everyone a house and garden is very difficult in urban areas.
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#67. I make mistakes like anybody else, I will make mistakes. And you have to reflect on it, and you have to listen to people. That is the key.
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#68. There is a democratic process in the party, and that can be operated at any time. But am I going to resign? No. Of course not. No. No. I will carry on.
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#69. I'm interested in the idea that we have a more inclusive, clearer set of objectives. I would want us to have a set of objectives which does include public ownership of some necessary things such as rail.
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#70. We see constituents who are manifestly incapable of undertaking any normal work ... Those whose applications for benefits are subsequently rejected go through a period of incredible stress, and some, sadly, take their lives during that time. Applicants who appeal usually win.
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#71. What kind of city are we living in, if we encourage the development or ownership of large, expensive properties for investment and land banking ... while people are sleeping on the streets?
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#72. You pay more in wages, get more in in tax, you get people living a higher standard, you get more money. It's a kind of circle.
Jeremy Corbyn
#73. Some colleagues have said they would not be very keen on working with me, but I am sure these things were said in the heat of the moment.
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#74. I also recognise that the mandate was given by hundreds of thousands of ordinary people joining in the political process.
Jeremy Corbyn
#75. You can't sustain a high level of intense activity with thousands of people forever. It has to be for a specific objective.
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#76. Mexico is becoming the northern part of Latin America, not the U.S.A.'s southern outpost.
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#77. We're not going back anywhere, we're going forward, we're going forward in democracy, we're going forward in participation, we're going forward with ideas.
Jeremy Corbyn
#78. I do not own a car, and my main form of travel to Westminster and in my constituency is by bicycle. I also take my bike on trains to meetings in other parts of the country, which enables me to see other cities and the other parts of the country.
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#80. Of course I want to lead [Tory] party. Of course I want to lead this party in order to put forward an alternative and lead this party to win the election as soon as it comes.
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#81. It is time we recognised the huge contribution that migration has made to the economic growth of this country.
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#82. I'm just a very normal person, living in north London, doing my best for my area and to put forward some serious debate on issues in the party.
Jeremy Corbyn
#83. Labour Party members must all be free to criticise and oppose injustice and abuse wherever we find it.
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#84. There is a self interest in voting for a society where there is health care for all, where there's a mental health service for all, where there is education service for all.
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#85. A more productive economy in the long term will bring us higher tax revenues, but that requires long-term investment in infrastructure and the skills necessary to grow a balanced economy.
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#86. If there is 'right to buy' for council tenants and housing association properties, then why shouldn't that apply to all tenants? Some landlords are decent, very caring people, but some of them are truly appalling.
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#87. Every penny paid to a PFI company is money withdrawn from those waiting for an operation, money removed from the training of clinicians, and money denied for life-saving treatments.
Jeremy Corbyn
#88. Because I've never had any higher education of any sort, I've never held in awe those who have had it or have a sense of superiority over those who don't.
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#89. We are now at risk of having a zombie democracy roaming around a one-party state.
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#90. What I find appalling is the intrusive nature towards my extended family.
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#91. Legal aid ... is fundamental to giving everybody in this country access to justice.
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#92. If the leadership can't win a debate, then we should show true leadership and implement the democratic will of our party.
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#93. I think in English history a very interesting character is John Lilburne. Very interesting character because of the way he managed to develop the whole debate about the English civil war into something very different.
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#94. I want a world of peace. I'm not interested in bombs. I'm not interested in wars. I'm interested in peace.
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#95. People apply for a job, are asked to work for three or four weeks on probation and are then told to go and are replaced by colleagues. There are shops even in the West End [of London] using large numbers of totally unpaid staff on a permanent basis.
Jeremy Corbyn
#96. Why are we putting people who are already in a vulnerable position through this dreadful, appalling stress?
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#97. When legal aid was first introduced in 1949, the late Arthur Skeffington said that the law at that time was like The Ritz, in that those who could afford to pay had access to it, while those who could not did not.
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#98. You grow your way to prosperity; you don't cut your way to it.
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#99. I think NATO is a Cold War product. I think NATO historically should have shut up shop in 1990 along with the Warsaw Pact; unfortunately, it didn't.
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#100. It is opposition to economic orthodoxy that leads us into austerity and cuts. But it is also a thirst for something more communal, more participative. That, to me, is what is interesting in this process.
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