Corbyn Quotes & Sayings

Tony Benn and I were very close, very close friends for 30, 40 years. We talked to each other a great deal, and we were great friends. And I was with him shortly before he died, talking about prospects of the world and prospects for peace. And I'm very sad that he's gone. — Jeremy Corbyn

NATO expansion and Russian expansion - one leads to the other, and one reflects the other. — Jeremy Corbyn

We are developing a media policy which would be about breaking up single ownership of too many sources of information so that we have a multiplicity of sources. — Jeremy Corbyn

The weather records of the U.S.A. are the best kept and most accessible in the world, thanks to consistent government/military taxpayer support. There are longer European data sets, but the U.S.A. data is enough to forecast major extreme events. — Piers Corbyn

Sure, I've met with people I don't agree with. — Jeremy Corbyn

The Zocalo is a magnificent space, at least four times the size of Trafalagar Square, with the National Palace on one side, the huge cathedral on the other, and in one corner part of the old Aztec City so brutally destroyed by Hernan Cortez and the Conquistadores. — Jeremy Corbyn

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. — Jeremy Corbyn

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

Quite simply, I maintained contact with Sinn Fein and believed that there had to be a political, not a military, solution to the situation in Northern Ireland. — Jeremy Corbyn

The comments by the Leader of the Labour Party [Jeremy Corbyn] at the launch, however they were intended, are themselves offensive, and rather than rebuilding trust among the Jewish community, are likely to cause even greater concern. — Ephraim Mirvis

I do think the public want to see politicians acting in a different way. What's brought young people into our campaign is that they were written off by political parties but they had never written off politics, and what we have is a huge number of young people, very enthusiastic and brimming with ideas. Those ideas have got to be heard. — Jeremy Corbyn

I gained a first class degree in Physics at Imperial College London in 1968 and did research in solid state physics, but did not pursue meteorology matters until gaining an M.Sc. in astrophysics from Queen Mary College London in 1981, after which I investigated and attempted to construct theories of solar activity. — Piers Corbyn

We can create a new kind of politics: kinder, more respectful, but courageous, too. — Jeremy Corbyn

We oppose the benefit cap. We oppose social cleansing. We will bring the welfare bill down by controlling rents and boosting wages, not by impoverishing families and socially cleansing our communities. — Jeremy Corbyn

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

We live in a very unequal society. — Jeremy Corbyn

It is important that politicians defend their ability to act without fear or favour, and it is in the public interest that they hold ministers and public servants to account. — Jeremy Corbyn

She kicked me off the bed! — Anne Bishop

I've supported Jeremy Corbyn all the way along because I think that was the right thing to do. I've reluctantly reached the conclusion that his position is untenable. — Ed Miliband

He gave the side of her head a quick lick before she squealed and ducked away from him. Tasted like Meg. Felt like puppy fuzz. Too bad he couldn't hold her down and give her a proper grooming like he used to do with Sam. — Anne Bishop

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. — Jeremy Corbyn

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. — Jeremy Corbyn

Our Jewish friends are no more responsible for the actions of Israel or the Netanyahu Government than our Muslim friends are for those of various self-styled Islamic states or organisations. — Jeremy Corbyn

Trade unions are a force for good - a force for a more equal society. — Jeremy Corbyn

The general trend in the last 4,000 years is that carbon dioxide and temperature have been moving against each other. — Piers Corbyn

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. — Jeremy Corbyn

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

Corbyn was not elected by the parliamentary party but by people who have the luxury of sounding off without the responsibility of answering for it. Corbyn represents the idiocy of direct democracy, and the culture of resentment that takes advantage of it. — Roger Scruton

We are not doing celebrity, personality, abusive politics - we are doing ideas. This is about hope. — Jeremy Corbyn

It is the right of a democratically elected parliament to act in defence of our traditional liberties, and everything should be done to keep it that way. — Jeremy Corbyn

Other human rights atrocities from African slavery to the killing fields of Cambodia, the Armenian and Rwandan Genocides are all of course to be remembered, but diluting their particularity or comparing degrees of evil does no good. — Jeremy Corbyn

United we stand, divided we fall is one of the oldest and truest slogans of the Labour movement. — Jeremy Corbyn

Jeremy Corbyn had shown a catastrophic failure of leadership and must step down to make way for someone with the backbone to confront racism and anti-Semitism. — Ruth Smeeth

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

I do not own a car, and my main form of travel to Westminster and in my constituency is by bicycle. I also take my bike on trains to meetings in other parts of the country, which enables me to see other cities and the other parts of the country. — Jeremy Corbyn

We see constituents who are manifestly incapable of undertaking any normal work ... Those whose applications for benefits are subsequently rejected go through a period of incredible stress, and some, sadly, take their lives during that time. Applicants who appeal usually win. — Jeremy Corbyn

There is nothing wrong with my heart except for wanting a peaceful world. — Jeremy Corbyn

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

Obsession with the market seem to prevent ministers looking at the huge problem and all its ramifications in health, education and employment that come from the housing insecurity that too many face. — Jeremy Corbyn

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

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. — Jeremy Corbyn

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. — Jeremy Corbyn

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. — Jeremy Corbyn

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. — Jeremy Corbyn

I have dealt with a pretty interesting mix of young people, many of whom have never been involved in any form of politics at any level who are interested in alternatives to austerity and debt, and older people who left the Labour party, mainly over Iraq, who are coming back in. — Jeremy Corbyn

Polar bears did very well in the warmer times. They didn't die out at all; they didn't die out in the last 10,000 years, nor during the previous interglacial, nor the one before that. So, they're just used as a deceitful heartthrob; you know, to pluck your heartstrings because the polar bears might die out. — Piers Corbyn

Simon's relationship with Meg was too complex for anything as simple as sex. — Anne Bishop

Until today I had made no public comment about Jeremy's [Corbyn] ability to lead our party, but the fact that he failed to intervene is final proof for me that he is unfit to lead, and that a Labour Party under his stewardship cannot be a safe space for British Jews. — Ruth Smeeth

I was democratically elected leader of our party for a new kind of politics by 60% of Labour members and supporters, and I will not betray them by resigning. Today's vote on Brexit has no constitutional legitimacy. — Jeremy Corbyn

Letting agencies are unregulated. They charge a search fee, which in some cases can run into several hundred pounds, but the search consists of no more than checking through a computer database to see whether they have any properties for that person. — Jeremy Corbyn

I'm not somebody with over-weening ambition. — Jeremy Corbyn

I think the issue will come up after the election of the new Tory leader. They may well decide to call an election. What the British people need now is stability. Stability to retain their jobs, stability to protect those working conditions, and we need a plan from this government now on how they're going to approach the negotiations for leaving the European Union before they invoke Article 50. — Jeremy Corbyn

I am just an ordinary person trying to do an ordinary job. — Jeremy Corbyn

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

Labour has the responsibility to give a lead where the government will not. We need to bring people together, hold the government to account, oppose austerity and set out a path to exit that will protect jobs and incomes. — Jeremy Corbyn

If you look at the other people around at the time - Charles Clarke, Alistair Darling, Jack Straw - they've all gone. And they're not old. What's happened is that someone who is quite old - Jeremy Corbyn - is now leader. We have to take some responsibility for that. — Alastair Campbell

Cycling is good for people in all ways: their health, their well-being, and it does no damage to the environment. It can, however, be dangerous, and this has to be addressed. — Jeremy Corbyn

I don't make personal abuse against anybody, I don't mind personal remarks. — Jeremy Corbyn

I've been proud to be the chair of the Stop the War coalition, proud to be associated with the Stop the War coalition. — Jeremy Corbyn

If there is 'right to buy' for council tenants and housing association properties, then why shouldn't that apply to all tenants? Some landlords are decent, very caring people, but some of them are truly appalling. — Jeremy Corbyn

What I find appalling is the intrusive nature towards my extended family. — Jeremy Corbyn

My view is that climate changes have happened in the last 80 years, that is, the world has got a little bit warmer, although not as warm as it has been in Medieval times, or the Bronze Age. — Piers Corbyn

Labour Party members must all be free to criticise and oppose injustice and abuse wherever we find it. — Jeremy Corbyn

Legal aid ... is fundamental to giving everybody in this country access to justice. — Jeremy Corbyn

Inequality is a terrible waste of time, a waste of people's resources. — Jeremy Corbyn

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. — Jeremy Corbyn

I've been in Parliament since 1983, and I've been involved in many issues over the time. — Jeremy Corbyn

We're not going back anywhere, we're going forward, we're going forward in democracy, we're going forward in participation, we're going forward with ideas. — Jeremy Corbyn

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. — Jeremy Corbyn

You grow your way to prosperity; you don't cut your way to it. — Jeremy Corbyn

I'm carrying on. I'm making the case for unity, I'm making the case of what Labour can offer to Britain, of decent housing for people, of good secure jobs for people, of trade with Europe and of course with other parts of the world. Because if we don't get the trade issue right we've got a real problem in this country. — Jeremy Corbyn

I want a world of peace. I'm not interested in bombs. I'm not interested in wars. I'm interested in peace. — Jeremy Corbyn

I've got lots of stamina; don't worry about that. I cycle every day - it's OK. — Jeremy Corbyn

My view is the questions in Parliament should be the questions that people out there want asked. — Jeremy Corbyn

I find if you are in an office, the crisis finds you. If you're not in the office, the crisis finds somebody else. — Jeremy Corbyn

I don't respond in any way to personal abuse that is thrown at me. — Jeremy Corbyn

People apply for a job, are asked to work for three or four weeks on probation and are then told to go and are replaced by colleagues. There are shops even in the West End [of London] using large numbers of totally unpaid staff on a permanent basis. — Jeremy Corbyn

Of course I want to lead [Tory] party. Of course I want to lead this party in order to put forward an alternative and lead this party to win the election as soon as it comes. — Jeremy Corbyn

I think we should talk about what the objectives of the party are, whether that's restoring the Clause Four as it was originally written or it's a different one, but I think we shouldn't shy away from public participation, public investment in industry, and public control of the railways. — Jeremy Corbyn

Do any of them realize that Simon Wolfgard is falling in love with Meg Corbyn? Monty wondered. Does Wolfgard understand his own response to the girl? What about Meg? How does she feel? What would the rest of the Others do if one of their kind did fall in love with a human? — Anne Bishop

If you want a more productive economy, you need to invest in the skills of our workforce. — Jeremy Corbyn

There is not going to be a peace process unless there is talks involving Israel, Hezbollah and Hamas, and I think everyone knows that. — Jeremy Corbyn

The key thing to understand is that solar activity causes shifts in the jet stream with consequent changes in weather patterns and triggers processes that lead to storm formation. — Piers Corbyn

I think NATO is a Cold War product. I think NATO historically should have shut up shop in 1990 along with the Warsaw Pact; unfortunately, it didn't. — Jeremy Corbyn

I will continue - as Labour Leader - to pursue the causes of peace and justice in Israel-Palestine, the wider Middle East and all over the world. But those who claim to do so with hateful or inflammatory language do no service to anyone, especially dispossessed and oppressed people in need of better advocacy. — Jeremy Corbyn

I'm a leader, not a dictator. I want to persuade people rather than threaten or control them. — Jeremy Corbyn

Because I've never had any higher education of any sort, I've never held in awe those who have had it or have a sense of superiority over those who don't. — Jeremy Corbyn

Of course we as Labour Party members must all be free to criticise and oppose injustice and abuse wherever we find it. But as today's Report recommends, can we please leave [Adolf] Hitler and Nazi metaphors alone (especially in the context of Israel). Why? Because the Shoah is still in people's family experience. — Jeremy Corbyn

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. — Jeremy Corbyn

Taken slightly historically, the turning point in the E.U. was actually the Single European Act, the Thatcher/Maastricht-era stuff, which was turning the E.U. into very much a market system. — Jeremy Corbyn

What kind of city are we living in, if we encourage the development or ownership of large, expensive properties for investment and land banking ... while people are sleeping on the streets? — Jeremy Corbyn

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. — Jeremy Corbyn

A more productive economy in the long term will bring us higher tax revenues, but that requires long-term investment in infrastructure and the skills necessary to grow a balanced economy. — Jeremy Corbyn

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. — Jeremy Corbyn

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

I'm not joining in personal attacks ... I don't do personal attacks. — Jeremy Corbyn

A lot of people didn't feel attracted to Labour, so they voted in desperation for other things. — Jeremy Corbyn

I haven't had vast amounts of ministerial experience - in fact, none at all. But I do have a lot of experience of people. — Jeremy Corbyn

Basically, on the question of Europe, I want to see a social Europe, a cohesive Europe, a coherent Europe, not a free market Europe. — Jeremy Corbyn

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. — Jeremy Corbyn