Jeremy Corbyn Quotes

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Jeremy Corbyn

Profession : Politician

Birth : May 26, 1949

I want to see a more collective style in how our party operates, in politics as a whole.

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We've got to stand up for what we believe in as a labour movement. And that means the party's membership needs to be even bigger so it becomes a genuinely mass organisation.

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It is time we recognised the huge contribution that migration has made to the economic growth of this country.

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Lopez Obrador invokes the appeal of national unity, the revolution of 1910, and the progressive constitution of 1917.

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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.

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I have already said and will continue to say that I won't respond to personal abuse, and I never make any personal abuse, ever, to anybody. I just don't do that kind of politics.

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What I find appalling is the intrusive nature towards my extended family.

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I understand the principles of dissent in parliament.

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In my own constituency, the benefit cap has had the effect of social cleansing: of people receiving benefit, but the benefit is capped; therefore, they can't meet the rent levels charged and are forced to move. It's devastating for children, devastating for the family and very bad for the community as a whole.

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Politically active people felt more and more disenfranchised, particularly during the ultra-New Labour years.

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I'm not joining in personal attacks... I don't do personal attacks.

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Mum and Dad met campaigning on the Spanish civil war. Both were active peace campaigners. They died in 1986 and '87.

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Diversity in media is something that is intrinsic to a democratic society. We do not want the whole media owned by one person.

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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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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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I've got lots of stamina; don't worry about that. I cycle every day - it's OK.

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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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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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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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Our problem in the 2015 general election was that for all the good stuff that was in the Labour manifesto, we were still going to be freezing public sector wages, cutting council expenditure, laying off civil servants. We were offering 'austerity light' instead of a real alternative.

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