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Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn (3 April 1925 – 14 March 2014), originally known as Anthony Wedgwood Benn, but later as Tony Benn, was a British politician, writer, and diarist. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for 47 years between the 1950 and 2001 general elections and a Cabinet minister in the Labour governments of Harold Wilson and James Callaghan in the 1960s and 1970s. Originally a moderate, he was identified as being on the party's hard left from the early 1980s, and was widely seen as a key proponent of democratic socialism within the party.

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Middle class Labour leaders are recaptured by the establishment when they die.

Class, Die, Establishment, Leader, Leaders, Middle

Marxism is now a world faith and must be allowed to enter into a continuous dialogue with other world faiths, including religious faiths

Enter, Faiths, Other Worlds, Politics, Religious, World

The Civil Service is a bit like a rusty weathercock. It moves with opinion then it stays where it is until another wind moves it in a different direction

Different, Moves, Moving, Rusty, Wind

I have had the advantage of a radical Christian upbringing

Advantage, Christian, Politics, Radical

Someone comes every morning at nine o'clock to see if I am still alive. I do get lonely, yes, but I have the children who come and see me. I see all my children every week, and there are the grandchildren, too.

Children, Grandchildren, Lonely, Morning, Nine, See

I think to understand how the democratic process works is the most important thing, so people don't get frightened by it, and get put off, and give up.

Democratic, Giving Up, People, Process, Thinking, Understand

I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.

Devote, Freedom, More Time, Politics, Time, Want

I really think in the Commonwealth of Europe you should have Russia. I listed a hundred countries that would be in it and it would then be a really European United Nations.

Commonwealth, Country, European, Hundred, Thinking, United Nations

I am a public library

Library, Politics, Public, Public Library

If one meets a powerful person - Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates - ask them five questions: 'What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?' If you cannot get rid of the people who govern you, you do not live in a democratic system.

Accountable, Exercise, Joe, People, Powerful, System

Thanks to the tabloid campaigns I have many death threats and I was very pleased to get another one the other day.

Campaigns, Day, Death, Tabloids, Thanks, Threats

It's lovely to be old. I've got age, experience and zero personal ambition. No body could corrupt me by anything: possibly a job in the government, a peerage, a quango, I don't want any of it.

Age, Ambition, Lovely, Quango, Zero

There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up.

Battle, Bloody, Finals, Same, Toughen, Victory

If I rescued a child from drowning, the press would no doubt headline the story: 'Benn grabs child

Children, Funny, Humor, Press, Rescued, Story

The peace movement didn't stop the Iraq but I think that Blair would not be able to go along and support an Iranian war.

Peace, Support, Think, Thinking, War

The present combination of corporate or commercial control theoretically answerable to politically appointed Boards of Governors is not in any sense a democratic enough procedure to control the power the broadcasters have.

Appointed, Boards, Combination, Enough, Power, Sense

The Internet is only the street corner meeting on a big scale

Bigs, Internet, Meeting, Scale, Scales

I met somebody once who said, "I'm a lapsed-atheist" by what he meant was, "I don't believe in God but the older I get the more I realise there is a spirituality in everybody that has to be cherished and nourished. " That made a lot of sense to me.

Believe, Believe In God, Meant, Said, Sense, Spirituality

When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia.

Old, People, Think, Thinking, Witty

If democracy is ever to be threatened, it will not be by revolutionary groups burning government offices and occupying the broadcasting and newspaper offices of the world. It will come from disenchantment, cynicism and despair caused by the realisation that the New World Order means we are all to be managed and not represented.

Mean, Government, Order, World, Burning

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