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Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. -- Adam Smith
The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics. -- Ed Miliband
I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country. -- Tony Blair
The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom. -- Ed Miliband
Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work. -- Mao Zedong
Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished. -- Samuel Smiles
For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of the public. -- Douglas Alexander
Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party. -- William Hague
If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man. And in America I'd definitely be a Democrat; I'd never be a Republican. -- Elton John
We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more invisible to public scrutiny - and thus leaves the children more open to abuse and exploitation. -- Carol Bellamy
Labour is priceless, not gold. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Labour is the purgatory of the erring. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Labour is the source of every blessing. -- Aesop
Labour is a great leveler of all distinctions. -- Mahatma Gandhi
We need people like me in the Labour party. -- Alan Johnson
Actually, I vote Labour, but my butler's a Tory. -- Lord Mountbatten
Labour economic stability has replaced Tory boom and bust -- John Prescott
People can say what they want in the Labour Party. -- Michael Foot
Labour has its unique place in a cultured human family. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Abortion is an issue of conscience for the Labour party. -- Diane Abbott
Labour has converted to Europe because Europe has converted to socialism. -- Roy Hattersley
What people should understand is that I adore the Labour party. -- Tony Blair
When will Labour learn that you cannot build Jerusalem in Brussels. -- Margaret Thatcher
The Labour Party is going about the country stirring up apathy. -- William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw
'Dignity of Labour' is a subject to be learnt from Australia! -- Narendra Modi
The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing. -- Harold Wilson
Middle class Labour leaders are recaptured by the establishment when they die. -- Tony Benn
The Labour Party's election manifesto is the longest suicide note in history. -- Greg Knight
They [the Labour Party] are not fit to manage a whelk stall. -- Winston Churchill
Under New Labour, only the future is certain. The past keeps changing -- Paul Flynn
The problem we have is not Labour, in however it is configured. -- Francis Maude
Our party: New Labour. Our mission: new Britain. New Labour new Britain. -- Tony Blair
Remember the No campaign is Conservative people, Labour people, people of no party. -- William Hague
I'm not tribal Labour. I'm a Liberal at heart. Different tradition, different language. -- Michael Ignatieff
I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party. -- Vivienne Westwood
I have never been in favour of expelling people from the Labour Party. -- Michael Foot
The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds. -- Lucy Powell
A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action. -- Karl Radek
Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General. -- Neil Kinnock
Labour politicians for generations have fought to bring democracy to the House of Lords. -- Charles Kennedy
My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice. -- Johann Lamont
I'm honoured to have been selected to be the Labour candidate for Manchester Central. -- Lucy Powell
Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy. -- Karl Radek
I don't always vote in general elections, but I think I've always voted Labour. -- Paul Merton
I do not often attack the Labour Party, they do it so well themselves. -- Edward Heath
The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life -- Roy Jenkins
People know where I stand in the Labour party and what I believe in. -- Tony Blair
Labour's constitutional blueprint is nothing less than a plan for the destruction of UK democracy. -- John Redwood
We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected. -- Roy Jenkins
We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected -- Roy Jenkins
The job of the Scottish Labour Party is to represent working people and represent Scotland. -- Johann Lamont
I believe whoever the Labour Party chooses to replace Tony Blair will beat David Cameron. -- David Blunkett
We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government. -- John Pilger
I'm a Labour politician, but, you know, I can see decent Tories with good ideas. -- Tony Blair
The Green Belt is a Labour achievement - and we mean to build on it. -- John Prescott
I've never known a time when the in-fighting in the Labour Party was so bitter. -- Roy Hattersley
Labour as long liu'd, pray as even dying. [Labor as long-lived, pray as ever dying.] -- George Herbert
We need to keep this Labour government, it has a good chance of another term. -- Clare Short
I did 'Love's Labour's Lost' in the theater and found it to be riotously funny. -- Kenneth Branagh
I vote Labour and can't begin to acknowledge anything good that comes from a Tory. -- Paloma Faith
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,The protest of the weak against the strong. -- Frederick William Faber
The Labour Party believes in turning workers against owners; we believe in turning workers into owners. -- Margaret Thatcher
Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes. -- Alistair Darling
I know that strong trade unions and best supported by Labour Government actually protect worker's rights. -- Gisela Stuart
The 1973 Labour Conference will have before it the most radical programme the Party has prepared since 1945. -- Tony Benn
We're now in a situation in which Capital is highly mobile and Labour is basically immobile. -- Noam Chomsky
I've been in the Labour Party 50 years and it's 40-odd since I was elected to Parliament -- Roy Hattersley
Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men. -- Henry Ford
I want a Labour Party that is more democratic, more open and listens to its members. -- Diane Abbott
Labour markets are about people. And people have a right to be treated with dignity and respect. -- Juan Somavia
Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain. -- Peter Mandelson
The solution is not to reinvent ourselves, not to ape the Labour Party or the Liberal Democrats. -- Malcolm Rifkind
If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong. -- Shirley Williams
The Tories are now the party of rural areas and Labour essentially is in the big cities -- Vince Cable
Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price. -- David Ricardo
Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government. -- George V
Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government. -- George V
You have to be very rich to afford Labour, with 66 tax rises since they came in power. -- John Redwood
In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that. -- Enoch Powell
I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine. -- Aneurin Bevan
New Labour needs to realise that family life and the way we raise our children are private matters. -- Charles Kennedy
Labour Party members must all be free to criticise and oppose injustice and abuse wherever we find it. -- Jeremy Corbyn
You sat there and watched our colleague Ruth Smeeth abused at a Labour event. Your words are hollow. -- Wes Streeting
The Liberal Democrats will add a heart to a Conservative government and a brain to a Labour one. -- Nick Clegg
United we stand, divided we fall is one of the oldest and truest slogans of the Labour movement. -- Jeremy Corbyn
Labour voters are crying out for effective leadership.I'm afraid I don't think Jeremy [Corbyn]can provide it. -- Jeremy Corbyn
Our long-term objective is clear: to replace the Labour Party as the progressive wing of politics in this country. -- Jo Grimond
In Scotland, the indication is that for the Westminster elections at least, Labour voters are satisfied with their government. -- Lucy Powell
The Labour Party has become consumed by collective bile towards... the Liberal Democrats. That portrays a rather nasty arrogance. -- Nick Clegg
I certainly think that a Labour Government will have to have effective powers to control the outflow of capital. -- Michael Foot
American nuclear weapons would almost certainly start being removed from Britain within 12 months of a Labour government gaining power. -- Neil Kinnock
The cause of Labour is the cause of Ireland, and the cause of Ireland is the cause of Labour -- James Connolly
Labour day is a great American holiday that people celebrate by going out and buying products made in China -- David Letterman
The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists. -- Johann Lamont
British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target. -- Rory Bremner
Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime. -- Tony Blair
If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war. -- Ken Livingstone
Being a Labour home secretary in the 21st century means fighting a constant battle against both extreme Right and Left. -- David Blunkett
Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base. -- John Ruskin
She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked. -- Evelyn Waugh
I'm sick and tired of government ministers in this Labour government who simply blame other people when things go wrong. -- Theresa May
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."[On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.] -- Winston S. Churchill
I hope you have read the election programme of the Labour Party...this is not socialism. It is Bolshevism run mad. -- Edward Snowden
I did meet Mickey Mouse in California, and he seems to be writing the Labour party's economic policy at the moment. -- George Osborne
If we are tough on crime and on terrorism, as Labour is, then I think Britain will be safer under Labour -- Peter Hain
The Labour Party can go into the next election united behind the most radical manifesto on which we have ever campaigned. -- Roy Hattersley
The ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income. -- Harold Wilson
The achievements of Labour in the years after the Second World War should never be underestimated, but they are now history. -- Bob Crow
If the Labour manifesto is a pale shade of austerity, then I believe Labour will be defeated at the next election -- Len McCluskey
It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term. -- Peter Mandelson
I am in the Labour Party because I am a feminist. I am in the Labour Party because I believe in equality. -- Harriet Harman
I'm not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I'm the only one who's questioned about it. -- Diane Abbott
I did not enter the Labour Party 47 years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr Mori, Dr Gallup and Mr Harris -- Tony Benn
It is good to see two women from Britain's minority ethnic communities fighting in seats that Labour won at the last election. -- Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos
Each successive Labour Government has been the most rapacious, doctrinaire and unpatriotic conspiracy to be seen this side of the Iron Curtain. -- Roy Jenkins
Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror. -- John Owen
The number one priority now is reducing the deficit that they [Labour] left us - the biggest deficit since the Second World War. -- Iain Duncan Smith
The Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights... have pressured retailers on campus and off to publicly disclose the factory names and addresses. -- Ralph Nader
Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
In the Members' Dining Room, the Conservatives eat at one end, the Labour Party at the other, while the Liberals wait at table. -- Gyles Brandreth

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