--- title: "10 Trump Quotes By Tony Benn" description: "10 Trump quotes by Tony Benn. Plus more from Tony Benn and more Trump sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7df/tony-benn-2543_house_if-ever-i-left-the-house-of-commons-it-w_3058281.png" --- > [If ever I left the House of Commons it would be because I wanted to spend more time on politics.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/if-ever-i-left-the-house-of-commons-it-would-be-because-i-wanted-to/) [Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7df/tony-benn-2543_house_if-ever-i-left-the-house-of-commons-it-w_3058281.png) > [I'm a democrat - I don't support Bush, I don't support Blair, I don't support Bin Laden.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/i-m-a-democrat-i-don-t-support-bush-i-don-t-support-blair-i-don-t/) [Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b7/tony-benn-2543_bin-laden_i-m-a-democrat-i-don-t-support-bush-i-do_2399083.png) > [At the end of my life, I was told to vote for it for pensioners; I' m not in favour of means…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/at-the-end-of-my-life-i-was-told-to-vote-for-it-for-pensioners-i-m/) [Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/55c/tony-benn-2543_anybody_at-the-end-of-my-life-i-was-told-to-vote_1139253.png) > [I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/i-am-on-the-right-wing-of-the-middle-of-the-road-and-with-a-strong/) [Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c1/tony-benn-2543_bias_i-am-on-the-right-wing-of-the-middle-of_2192135.png) > [I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/i-now-want-more-time-to-devote-to-politics-and-more-freedom-to-do-so/) [Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2c/tony-benn-2543_freedom_i-now-want-more-time-to-devote-to-politi_1179242.png) > [The Civil Service is a bit like a rusty weathercock. It moves with opinion then it stays where it is until another…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/the-civil-service-is-a-bit-like-a-rusty-weathercock-it-moves-with/) [Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f75/tony-benn-2543_bits_the-civil-service-is-a-bit-like-a-rusty_1102317.png) > [If you're going to make sense of politics you have to have a historical perspective and also recognise that you have to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/if-you-re-going-to-make-sense-of-politics-you-have-to-have-a/) [Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e6/tony-benn-2543_agree_if-you-re-going-to-make-sense-of-politic_2990015.png) > [Making mistakes is part of life. The only things I would feel ashamed of would be if I had said things I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/making-mistakes-is-part-of-life-the-only-things-i-would-feel-ashamed/) [Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf7/tony-benn-2543_art-of-life_making-mistakes-is-part-of-life-the-only_492040.jpg) > [There's people on the left who say, the ballot box is a waste of time. Forget them. When Mandela voted for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/there-s-people-on-the-left-who-say-the-ballot-box-is-a-waste-of-time/) [Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d11/tony-benn-2543_age_there-s-people-on-the-left-who-say-the-b_2053769.jpg) > [People in debt become hopeless and hopeless people don’t vote. They always say that that everyone should vote but I think that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/people-in-debt-become-hopeless-and-hopeless-people-don-t-vote-they/) [Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb4/tony-benn-2543_britain_people-in-debt-become-hopeless-and-hopel_228723.jpg) ## Other authors on Trump ## More by Tony Benn > [Experience is the only real teacher and if you keep a diary you get three bites at educating yourself - when it happens, when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/experience-is-the-only-real-teacher-and-if-you-keep-a-diary-you-get/) [Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/) > [Someone comes every morning at nine o'clock to see if I am still alive. I do get lonely, yes, but I have the children…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/someone-comes-every-morning-at-nine-o-clock-to-see-if-i-am-still/) [Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/) > [Middle class Labour leaders are recaptured by the establishment when they die.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/middle-class-labour-leaders-are-recaptured-by-the-establishment-when/) [Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/) > [Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far larger part…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/change-from-below-the-formulation-of-demands-from-the-populace-to-end/) [Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/) > [People would do well to ask themselves how many of their ambitions and aspirations derive from the type of economic system they inhabit and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/people-would-do-well-to-ask-themselves-how-many-of-their-ambitions/) [Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/) > [Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/most-things-in-life-are-moments-of-pleasure-and-a-lifetime-of/) [Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/) > [You have to try to build support around causes. It is uniting to campaign on a single issue, and it is never just a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/you-have-to-try-to-build-support-around-causes-it-is-uniting-to/) [Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/) > [Normally, people give up parliament because they want to do more business or spend more time with family. My wife said 'why don't you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/normally-people-give-up-parliament-because-they-want-to-do-more/) [Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/) > [Food movement organic food stores supplies health food products and facilitate with instrumental support in organic agriculture.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/food-movement-organic-food-stores-supplies-health-food-products-and/) [Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/) > [We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/we-are-not-just-here-to-manage-capitalism-but-to-change-society-and/) [Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/) > [I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/i-think-there-are-two-ways-in-which-people-are-controlled-first-of/) [Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/) > [People in debt become hopeless and hopeless people don’t vote. They always say that that everyone should vote but I think that if the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/people-in-debt-become-hopeless-and-hopeless-people-don-t-vote-they/) [Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/) > [Workers are not going to be fobbed off with a few shares...or by a carbon copy of the German system of co-determination.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/workers-are-not-going-to-be-fobbed-off-with-a-few-shares-or-by-a/) [Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/) > [No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his or her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/no-medieval-monarch-in-the-whole-of-british-history-ever-had-such/) [Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/) > [Having served in eleven Parliaments, it would be difficult to describe this as a maiden speech. It would be like Elizabeth Taylor appearing at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/having-served-in-eleven-parliaments-it-would-be-difficult-to-describe/) [Tony Benn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-benn/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/trump/tony-benn/#itemlist", "name": "10 Trump Quotes By Tony Benn", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If ever I left the House of Commons it would be because I wanted to spend more time on politics.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Tony Benn" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/if-ever-i-left-the-house-of-commons-it-would-be-because-i-wanted-to/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7df/tony-benn-2543_house_if-ever-i-left-the-house-of-commons-it-w_3058281.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7df/tony-benn-2543_house_if-ever-i-left-the-house-of-commons-it-w_3058281.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7df/tony-benn-2543_house_if-ever-i-left-the-house-of-commons-it-w_3058281.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If ever I left the House of Commons it would be because I wanted to spend more time on politics.” — Tony Benn", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I'm a democrat - I don't support Bush, I don't support Blair, I don't support Bin Laden.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Tony Benn" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-benn/i-m-a-democrat-i-don-t-support-bush-i-don-t-support-blair-i-don-t/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b7/tony-benn-2543_bin-laden_i-m-a-democrat-i-don-t-support-bush-i-do_2399083.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b7/tony-benn-2543_bin-laden_i-m-a-democrat-i-don-t-support-bush-i-do_2399083.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b7/tony-benn-2543_bin-laden_i-m-a-democrat-i-don-t-support-bush-i-do_2399083.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I'm a democrat - I don't support Bush, I don't support Blair, I don't support Bin Laden.” — Tony Benn", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "At the end of my life, I was told to vote for it for pensioners; 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