Politicians Live Quotes by Michael Foot

Socialism without public ownership is nothing but a fantastic apology.

— Michael Foot

Think of it! A second chamber selected by the Whips. A seraglio of eunuchs.

— Michael Foot

I certainly think that a Labour Government will have to have effective powers to control the outflow of capital.

— Michael Foot

Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.

— Michael Foot

The national strike of the miners in 1972 performed, I believe, a great service, not only to the miners, but the people in Britain…

— Michael Foot

He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

— Michael Foot

I have never been in favour of expelling people from the Labour Party.

— Michael Foot

There is nothing wrong with being a Marxist. Their point of view is essential to a democratic debate.

— Michael Foot

All is fair in love and war and Parliamentary procedure.

— Michael Foot

Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read.

— Michael Foot

No rising hope on the political scene who offered his services to Labour when I happened to be its leader can be dismissed as…

— Michael Foot

I've been on the left of the Party since I joined it about 1934 and I haven't seen much reason for altering...I have always…

— Michael Foot

The only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress.

— Michael Foot

Politicians live in little worlds of their own and imagine they are the universe.

— Michael Foot

There are judges who stretch the law... to suit reactionary attitudes.

— Michael Foot