Roy Jenkins Quotes
- There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.
- A substantial extension of public ownership is an essential pre-requisite of greater equality of earned income
- The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society
- A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect
- We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected
- The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life
- There is a lot of talk about a centre party - and that I might lead it. I find this idea profoundly unattractive
- I therefore believe that the politics of the left and centre of this country are frozen in an out-of-date mould which is bad for the…
- The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that…
- I do not think you can push public expenditure significantly above 60 per cent and maintain the values of a plural society with adequate freedom…
- Many of the early nationalisation measures were right. They have remained part of the social fabric. I favour measures of that type.
- Inheritance Tax; - it is, broadly speaking; a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the Inland Revenue
- I am sure Mr Heath thinks he is honest but I wish he didn't have to have his friends say it so often.