I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country. Votes: 4
Tony BlairThe Labour Party is going about the country stirring up apathy. Votes: 3
William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount WhitelawI have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party. Votes: 3
Vivienne WestwoodRemember the No campaign is Conservative people, Labour people, people of no party. Votes: 3
William HagueI'm not tribal Labour. I'm a Liberal at heart. Different tradition, different language. Votes: 3
Michael IgnatieffI don't always vote in general elections, but I think I've always voted Labour. Votes: 3
Paul MertonMy Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice. Votes: 3
Johann LamontI'm honoured to have been selected to be the Labour candidate for Manchester Central. Votes: 3
Lucy PowellLabour politicians for generations have fought to bring democracy to the House of Lords. Votes: 3
Charles KennedyArthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General. Votes: 3
Neil KinnockI did 'Love's Labour's Lost' in the theater and found it to be riotously funny. Votes: 3
Kenneth BranaghI've never known a time when the in-fighting in the Labour Party was so bitter. Votes: 3
Roy HattersleyI'm a Labour politician, but, you know, I can see decent Tories with good ideas. Votes: 3
Tony BlairLabour itself is but a sorrowful song,The protest of the weak against the strong. Votes: 3
Frederick William FaberI vote Labour and can't begin to acknowledge anything good that comes from a Tory. Votes: 3
Paloma FaithLabour as long liu'd, pray as even dying. [Labor as long-lived, pray as ever dying.] Votes: 3
George HerbertI believe whoever the Labour Party chooses to replace Tony Blair will beat David Cameron. Votes: 3
David BlunkettThe job of the Scottish Labour Party is to represent working people and represent Scotland. Votes: 3
Johann LamontWe must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected Votes: 3
Roy JenkinsWe must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected. Votes: 3
Roy JenkinsLabour's constitutional blueprint is nothing less than a plan for the destruction of UK democracy. Votes: 3
John RedwoodWe have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government. Votes: 3
John PilgerI want a Labour Party that is more democratic, more open and listens to its members. Votes: 3
Diane AbbottLabour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men. Votes: 3
Henry FordI've been in the Labour Party 50 years and it's 40-odd since I was elected to Parliament Votes: 3
Roy HattersleyWe're now in a situation in which Capital is highly mobile and Labour is basically immobile. Votes: 3
Noam ChomskyTory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes. Votes: 3
Alistair DarlingYou have to be very rich to afford Labour, with 66 tax rises since they came in power. Votes: 3
John RedwoodThe Tories are now the party of rural areas and Labour essentially is in the big cities Votes: 3
Vince CableLabour markets are about people. And people have a right to be treated with dignity and respect. Votes: 3
Juan SomaviaThe solution is not to reinvent ourselves, not to ape the Labour Party or the Liberal Democrats. Votes: 3
Malcolm RifkindLabour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price. Votes: 3
David RicardoToday 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government. Votes: 3
George VToday 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government. Votes: 3
King George VUnited we stand, divided we fall is one of the oldest and truest slogans of the Labour movement. Votes: 3
Jeremy CorbynThe Liberal Democrats will add a heart to a Conservative government and a brain to a Labour one. Votes: 3
Nick CleggNew Labour needs to realise that family life and the way we raise our children are private matters. Votes: 3
Charles KennedyYou sat there and watched our colleague Ruth Smeeth abused at a Labour event. Your words are hollow. Votes: 3
Wes StreetingThe cause of Labour is the cause of Ireland, and the cause of Ireland is the cause of Labour Votes: 3
James ConnollyLabour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime. Votes: 3
Tony BlairIt's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term. Votes: 3
Peter MandelsonInvention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonThe gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense. Votes: 0
Arnold BennettThe big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating. Votes: 0
John NaisbittIf little labour, little are our gains: Man's fortunes are according to his pains. Votes: 0
Robert HerrickTo learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation. Votes: 0
ConfuciusWriting poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction. Votes: 0
Peter PorterI think there's not much patience for organized labour, period, public or private sector. Votes: 0
Kathleen WynneThe worlds civilization started from the day on which everyone received reward for labour. Votes: 0
Andrew CarnegieThe only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour. Votes: 0
David HarveyNothing falls into a man's lap from heaven. It is from labour that life grows. Votes: 0
Adolf HitlerA plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiThe simple is carefully shunned by those who labour to seem what they would be. Votes: 0
Paul FussellSuch hath it been--shall be--beneath the sun The many still must labour for the one. Votes: 0
Lord ByronNothing will demoralize the nation so much as that we should learn to despise labour. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiSaying of the ProphetFoodNobody has eaten better food than that won by his own labour. Votes: 0
Idries ShahThere is a world-wide conflict between capital and labour, and the poor envy the rich. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiBe aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things. Votes: 0
Karl MarxMere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiSuch is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more. Votes: 0
Leonardo da VinciTis hard to find God, but to comprehend Him, as He is, is labour without end. Votes: 0
Robert HerrickAnother of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labour of slaves. Votes: 0
James MadisonThere are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour. Votes: 0
Bertolt BrechtWhen war becomes a trade, it benefits, like all other trades, from the division of labour. Votes: 0
Jean-Baptiste SayThe prices of raw materials do not fluctuate directly with the labour cost of producing them. Votes: 0
Charles E. WilsonSuch labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeCosts of manufactured articles importantly depend on the cost of raw materials as well as labour. Votes: 0
Charles E. WilsonI cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour. Votes: 0
Henri RousseauI delivered leaflets for my dad and was paid £5 per thousand, which was slave labour. Votes: 0
Neil OliverGood food is always a trouble and its preparation should be regarded as a labour of love. Votes: 0
Elizabeth DavidCapitalism denies the right to live. You have only the right to remain on the labour market. Votes: 0
Noam ChomskyIt is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiThe only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery Votes: 0
Oscar WildeShining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em. Votes: 0
Thomas OtwayDignity of labour has to be our national duty; it has to be a part of our nature. Votes: 0
Narendra ModiThe calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour. Votes: 0
William Stanley JevonsJudge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress. Votes: 0
John BurnsIt may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last pull up. Votes: 0
Michael FaradayHow blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease! Votes: 0
Oliver GoldsmithI'm not sure filming a birth is as hard as actual labour, but it's a really long, arduous day! Votes: 0
Helen GeorgePoliticians said that with our cheap labour, we could be competitive in the world. Nothing could be further from the truth. We were the most uncompetitive country with that cheap labour. Votes: 3 Baba Kalyani
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television. Votes: 3 Lewis Thomas
Americans generally associate boats with leisure. Vastly less prosperous, Egyptians associate them with nothing but labour. Rowing a boat is something a fisherman is forced to do to make a living; how could such an activity bring me - a woman no less - pleasure? Votes: 1 Rosemary Mahoney
I have done all the work myself, not assistants. That's why I'm in a wheelchair: I've been doing it physically - it's hard labour - throughout my life. Votes: 3 Yayoi Kusama
I have lived and worked in Britain all my life. Not even in the dark days of penal Labour taxation in the Seventies did I have any intention of leaving the country of my birth. Votes: 1 Andrew Lloyd Webber
One of the jewels in the crown of Labour's time in office was the rescue of the National Health Service. As the Commonwealth Fund, the London School of Economics and the Nuffield Foundation have all shown, health reforms as well as additional investment were essential to improved outcomes, especially for poorer patients. Votes: 1 David Miliband
Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government. Votes: 4 King George V
My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin. Votes: 3 David Mamet