Tony Benn Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I've got four lovely children, ten lovely grandchildren, and I left parliament to devote more time to politics, and I think that what is really going on in Britain is a growing sense of alienation. People don't feel anyone listens to them.”

“My filing system is messy but orderly.”

“Someone comes every morning at nine o'clock to see if I am still alive. I do get lonely, yes, but I have the children who come and see me. I see all my children every week, and there are the grandchildren, too.”

“The uncut diaries are 16 million words. It's very tiring to do your diary every night before you go to bed.”

“I'm not frightened about death. I don't know why, but I just feel that at a certain moment your switch is switched off, and that's it. And you can't do anything about it.”

“I think if you're going to be committed to doing anything, you really have to care about it, and I suppose that is a romantic idea.”

“The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.”

“I can't go to bed if I haven't done my diary. I always record them just as I've always recorded all my interviews and speeches.”

“At the end of my life, I was told to vote for it for pensioners; I' m not in favour of means tests for pensioners or anybody.”

“My day rotates around my family. I am very lucky.”