"If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong."
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"There are hazards in everything one does, but there are greater hazards in doing nothing."
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"No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child."
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"The saddest illusion of the revolutionary is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings."
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"society, while willing to make room for women, is not willing to make changes for them."
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"The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes."
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"We have to say now we think the character of the party has changed so far it will take something very exceptional, something really out of the ordinary line to make us be convinced there's a chance of winning back the party."
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"We really shouldnt be running education like a supermarket where you compare prices."
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"It would be excellent if he is prepared to listen to other points of view."
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"We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards."
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"I am not interested in a third party. I do not believe it has any future."
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"The danger of any new party at a time of disillusion with the old parties, is that it becomes all things to all men."
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"The British civil service ... is a beautifully designed and effective braking mechanism."
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