Quotes from Jeremy Corbyn


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I am a proud trade unionist.


What I remain opposed to is the idea that David Cameron could go around and give up workers' rights, give up environmental protection, give up a whole load of things that are very important.


It is time we recognised the huge contribution that migration has made to the economic growth of this country.


Because I've never had any higher education of any sort, I've never held in awe those who have had it or have a sense of superiority over those who don't.


A national investment bank can invest to provide us with the foundations of shared and ecologically sustainable growth: renewing the U.K.'s energy, digital and transport infrastructure which lags woefully behind other major economies.


We are one of the richest countries in the world, and there is absolutely no reason why anyone should have to live in poverty.


Some colleagues have said they would not be very keen on working with me, but I am sure these things were said in the heat of the moment.


Life is life. Some of the wisest people you meet are sweeping our streets.


Inequality is a terrible waste of time, a waste of people's resources.


I want a world of peace. I'm not interested in bombs. I'm not interested in wars. I'm interested in peace.


I think we can spend too much time worrying about polls.


Loyalty is about the party and the movement... if you want a better and more effective party, we've got to open ourselves up much more to our membership and our supporters.


We are all in the Labour party because we want the Labour party to be a vehicle for social change. There is a thirst for debate in the party, and all those who have joined haven't joined without a purpose.


There is a self interest in voting for a society where there is health care for all, where there's a mental health service for all, where there is education service for all.


I do think the public want to see politicians acting in a different way. What's brought young people into our campaign is that they were written off by political parties but they had never written off politics, and what we have is a huge number of young people, very enthusiastic and brimming with ideas. Those ideas have got to be heard.


I think there's good in everybody.


Taken slightly historically, the turning point in the E.U. was actually the Single European Act, the Thatcher/Maastricht-era stuff, which was turning the E.U. into very much a market system.


We're not going back anywhere, we're going forward, we're going forward in democracy, we're going forward in participation, we're going forward with ideas.


Obsession with the market seem to prevent ministers looking at the huge problem and all its ramifications in health, education and employment that come from the housing insecurity that too many face.


We are not doing celebrity, personality, abusive politics - we are doing ideas. This is about hope.