Jeremy Corbyn Quotes

I’ve been quite involved in a lot of U.N. operations over the years. I was a U.N. observer at the East Timor referendum in 2000. I’ve been very involved in that for a long time.

To give everyone a house and garden is very difficult in urban areas.

You can’t sustain a high level of intense activity with thousands of people forever. It has to be for a specific objective.

Life is life. Some of the wisest people you meet are sweeping our streets.

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.

I want to see a more collective style in how our party operates, in politics as a whole.

Mum and Dad met campaigning on the Spanish civil war. Both were active peace campaigners. They died in 1986 and ’87.

I’ve got lots of stamina; don’t worry about that. I cycle every day – it’s OK.

The Spanish Civil War, Britain was not involved in it. Going back a bit, there was the naval blockade to stop the slave trade in the 19th century; that was morally just. Shame they didn’t bother to abolish slavery at the same time.

I’m not somebody with over-weening ambition.

I still have the Triumph Palm Beach I was given for Christmas when I was 11. By today’s standards, it is heavy and slow, but was my pride and joy at the time.

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

I’m a leader, not a dictator. I want to persuade people rather than threaten or control them.

For the absolute avoidance of doubt, my leadership will be about unity, drawing on all the talents – with women representing half of the shadow cabinet – and working together at every level of the party.

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.

Lopez Obrador invokes the appeal of national unity, the revolution of 1910, and the progressive constitution of 1917.

Diversity in media is something that is intrinsic to a democratic society. We do not want the whole media owned by one person.

I think in English history a very interesting character is John Lilburne. Very interesting character because of the way he managed to develop the whole debate about the English civil war into something very different.

The idea that somehow or other you can deal with all the problems in the world by banning a particular religious group from entering the U.S.A. is offensive and absurd.

We’ve got to stand up for what we believe in as a labour movement. And that means the party’s membership needs to be even bigger so it becomes a genuinely mass organisation.

Loyalty is about the party and the movement… if you want a better and more effective party, we’ve got to open ourselves up much more to our membership and our supporters.

Our problem in the 2015 general election was that for all the good stuff that was in the Labour manifesto, we were still going to be freezing public sector wages, cutting council expenditure, laying off civil servants. We were offering ‘austerity light’ instead of a real alternative.

We are one of the richest countries in the world, and there is absolutely no reason why anyone should have to live in poverty.

Everybody aspires to an affordable home, a secure job, better living standards, reliable healthcare and a decent pension. My generation took those things for granted, and so should future generations.

There is a self interest in voting for a society where there is health care for all, where there’s a mental health service for all, where there is education service for all.

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.

There is a democratic process in the party, and that can be operated at any time. But am I going to resign? No. Of course not. No. No. I will carry on.

I’m interested in the idea that we have a more inclusive, clearer set of objectives. I would want us to have a set of objectives which does include public ownership of some necessary things such as rail.

Riding a bicycle is the summit of human endeavour – an almost neutral environmental effect coupled with the ability to travel substantial distances without disturbing anybody. The bike is the perfect marriage of technology and human energy.

I’ve been in Parliament since 1983, and I’ve been involved in many issues over the time.

Like a majority of the population and a majority of even Tory voters, I want the railways back in public ownership.

We are all in the Labour party because we want the Labour party to be a vehicle for social change. There is a thirst for debate in the party, and all those who have joined haven’t joined without a purpose.

I think we should all be accountable to our parties, but I also think that accountability should be a process of engagement: that MPs do engage with their constituency parties, do engage with their constituents, and MPs do change their minds on things because of local opinion.

It is time we recognised the huge contribution that migration has made to the economic growth of this country.

We live in a very unequal society.

I make mistakes like anybody else, I will make mistakes. And you have to reflect on it, and you have to listen to people. That is the key.

Politically active people felt more and more disenfranchised, particularly during the ultra-New Labour years.

Trade unions are a force for good – a force for a more equal society.

Local authorities face huge housing issues with demands outstripping supply many times over; the only way those in housing need can be housed is in the private sector.

Russia has gone way beyond its legal powers to use bases in the Crimea.

I have already said and will continue to say that I won’t respond to personal abuse, and I never make any personal abuse, ever, to anybody. I just don’t do that kind of politics.

I’m just a very normal person, living in north London, doing my best for my area and to put forward some serious debate on issues in the party.

You pay more in wages, get more in in tax, you get people living a higher standard, you get more money. It’s a kind of circle.

Inequality is a terrible waste of time, a waste of people’s resources.