Jeremy Corbyn Quotes

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Jeremy Corbyn

Profession : Politician

Birth : May 26, 1949

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.

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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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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.

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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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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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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.

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I have always worked long hours and very hard. It is the way I am. Same as always. Up about seven and get to bed about 12 to 1, something like that.

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I think we can spend too much time worrying about polls.

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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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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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After only two or three weeks in office, we discovered we had a backlog of 100,000 emails sent to me. We had a backlog of a thousand invitations to speak at places all over the country - and all over the world, for that matter.

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I'm quite concerned that if I spend time in the office, someone will always find something for you to do. There's always a crisis that needs your urgent attention.

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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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Parliament is supposed to be serious. It's not a place for jingoistic cheering.

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I've been proud to be the chair of the Stop the War coalition, proud to be associated with the Stop the War coalition.

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We oppose the benefit cap. We oppose social cleansing. We will bring the welfare bill down by controlling rents and boosting wages, not by impoverishing families and socially cleansing our communities.

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I am a proud trade unionist.

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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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I believe in public ownership, but I have never favoured the remote nationalised model of the postwar era.

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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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