Jeremy Corbyn

Homelessness in the UK is wholly unnescessary.

Let’s not turn this into blaming people who travel, work and migrate around Europe, let’s instead ensure governments respond to the needs of all communities and that unscrupulous employers that are grossly exploiting migrant workers and trying to limit their rights need to be dealt with.

The government appears to be waiting for instructions from President Donald Trump on how to proceed, britain should press for an independent U.N.-led investigation of last weekend’s horrific chemical weapons attack so that those responsible can be held to account.

My wife is Mexican and my constituency is very, very multicultural.

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990, with the ending of the Warsaw Pact mutual defence strategy, was the obvious time for Nato to have been disbanded.

I’ve made it clear my views on austerity and I’ve made it very clear my views on the Iraq War. And I promised that I would, and I did, give the apology on the anniversary of Iraq, and I stand by that, because I think it was a catastrophic mistake.

It’s perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar.

As important as it is to change the lightbulbs, it is more important to change the laws.

The press must grow day in and day out – it is our Party’s sharpest and most powerful weapon.

Under my administration anyone who illegally crosses the border will be detained until they are removed out of our country and back to the country from which they came.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

Capital punishment is a crime. I agree with Amnesty International on that one, and indeed with most of the world. The state should have no right to take people’s lives.

The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine.

Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don’t let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?

The case for individual freedom rests largely upon the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a great many of the factors on which the achievements of our ends and welfare depend.

The profusion of government … [has] retarded the natural progress.

No one wants the United Nations to suffer the fate of the League of Nations, which collapsed because it lacked real leverage. This is possible if influential countries bypass the United Nations and take military action without Security Council authorization.

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it’s important.

With the first link, a chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.

The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy.

But that [‘friendly Fascism’] requires an honest ideologue, a Hitler type, not someone whose only detectable ideology is Me.