Government Quotes by Roy Jenkins

The most moving speech I have ever heard was Hugh Gaitskell saying he would 'fight, fight and fight again to save the party we…

— Roy Jenkins

A substantial extension of public ownership is an essential pre-requisite of greater equality of earned income

— Roy Jenkins

Inheritance Tax; - it is, broadly speaking; a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the Inland Revenue

— Roy Jenkins

A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect

— Roy Jenkins

There is a lot of talk about a centre party - and that I might lead it. I find this idea profoundly unattractive

— Roy Jenkins

The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society

— Roy Jenkins

The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life

— Roy Jenkins

I therefore believe that the politics of the left and centre of this country are frozen in an out-of-date mould which is bad for…

— Roy Jenkins

Each successive Labour Government has been the most rapacious, doctrinaire and unpatriotic conspiracy to be seen this side of the Iron Curtain.

— Roy Jenkins

Many of the early nationalisation measures were right. They have remained part of the social fabric. I favour measures of that type.

— Roy Jenkins

We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected

— Roy Jenkins

I am sure Mr Heath thinks he is honest but I wish he didn't have to have his friends say it so often.

— Roy Jenkins