Roy Hattersley Quotations

Every time there's a little dispute, everybody attacks each other in public.

Indeed in my blue and white Sheffield Wednesday heart I applauded and supported his loyalty.

A crucial contribution to the ideological argument ...it provides a vital part of the intellectual manifesto on which the battle for a better society can be fought

In my opinion, any man who can afford to buy a newspaper should not be allowed to own one.

I've been in the Labour Party 50 years and it's 40-odd since I was elected to Parliament

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Truth is suppressed, not to protect the country from enemy agents but to protect the Government of the day against the people.

The Labour Party can go into the next election united behind the most radical manifesto on which we have ever campaigned.

People who watch morning television are elderly, infirm or emotionally immature.

Labour has converted to Europe because Europe has converted to socialism.