Michael Foot

“Socialism without public ownership is nothing but a fantastic apology.”

“She has no imagination and that means no compassion.”

“A press that is free to lie is not a press that is free.”

“A royal commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.”

“People must be free to read and watch what they want.”

“I have been on a few demonstrations and I have seen the police get it wrong.”

“We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with discovery, but to squirrel away descriptions of the beautiful.”

“The national press is now the most powerful instrument of misinformation that we have.”

“I think the House of Lords ought to be abolished.”

“Disraeli was my favourite Tory. He was an adventurer pure and simple. He had no principles, but he had imagination.”

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

“He is a semi-housetrained polecat.”