The arrogant view that young people don't count because they don't vote has thankfully been smashed for ever.
— John McDonnell
New Labour has systematically alienated section after section of the coalition we need to win and retain power.
Meeting the challenges of the future requires a state that can think and act strategically.
As the world changes, the way we work changes with it.
Leaders play an important role, but it is the Labour party's supporters and potential supporters who should take the lead in discussing and determining the sense of purpose and direction of the party if we are to return to being a social movement aiming to transform our society.
When you're in the depths of a recession, that isn't the time when people want to challenge the system, they're too busy trying to survive. It's when they're told we're coming out of a recession, growth is returning, and they're not seeing the benefits of it, or they're not seeing them quick enough.
I'm a Marxist.
If Marx was alive during the Stalinist period, he'd be first to be in the gulag.
Getting political representation is important, but change comes through using direct action, campaigning, and trade unions.
I saw the Blair-Mandelson regime as a coup, and I think it was a well-funded coup as well - resources obviously came from big private-sector backers. But all through that period the bulk of the rank and file party were what the party has always been, a socialist party.
When you talk to people about their practical life, for example when they're at work, like the rail industry, the RMT members know better than anyone else how to run their industry.
I would like Leveson Part Two. I think Leveson was a good exercise. That is why the Tories blocked it, because it was beginning to develop more accountability within the media itself.
There'll be creative business leaders but actually, when it comes down to it, they can't do anything unless they're part of a collective. Unless they've got that wealth creator, that engineer and that work person, that skilled person at the bench to fulfil that idea... they're nothing.
Our objectives are socialist. That means an irreversible shift in the balance of power and wealth in favour of working people.
The concept of loyalty to the leader is set firmly in the ethos of the Labour party.
If bitter party name-calling turns people off then smear politics just destroys all credibility in the aims of politicians, the role of political parties and the political process itself.
Out of the suffering of the 1930s, Britain built a civilising society, based in large part on the important lesson that unemployment is rarely the fault of individual malingering but the structural consequence of governments allowing the free market to rule our lives.
There are some lines in the sand you just do not cross. Undermining basic civil liberties by locking people up for long periods without charge is one of them.
People realise that if Labour is to fulfil its founding goal of transforming our economic and political system into a more equal, free and truly democratic society, which provides security and life-changing opportunities to the British people, then there is no going back.
The spread of information technology and the long-term decline in the cost of computing power have created opportunities that simply did not exist before. Airbnb, for example, could not have existed before the Internet.
Politicians have patronised and talked down to us all when it comes to our economy, but ordinary working people have to manage on incomes significantly lower than the likes of George Osborne and his friends in the City. They could teach the bankers and many commentators a thing or two about managing a budget responsibly.
I'm a plain speaker.
Very clearly, government investment can and should be used to support economic growth.
What Gramsci is all about is hegemony: you win the battle of ideas and it dominates.
We believe that leaders should be following the masses. We only ran in leadership campaigns to get our ideas across, to use it as a platform.
You can't change the world through the parliamentary system.
I sneaked into an Everton match once. I'm a Liverpool supporter, but Liverpool were away, Liverpool reserves weren't playing, there wasn't even a youth match, so I took my son into an Everton match. God help me. It wasn't me.
There's something in people's character, particularly the British character, about unfairness. They don't like it.
We want to be absolutely clear to the people what we are about. No backroom deals whatsoever and we're not going to be held back by any other political parties.
I've always honestly and openly said I believe in a united Ireland, but the point was to try and get to a united Ireland without the violence.
To be effective in tackling poverty wages, a living wage has to be mandatory and basic trade union rights should be restored so workers can protect themselves from exploitative employers.
Well organised displays of spontaneous support is one of the New Labour machine's specialities.
Political rivalry is one thing but personal smear campaigns scrape the barrel of political infighting.
If we need more demand in the economy then protect people in work and raise the incomes of those on low incomes who need to spend, such as the low paid, pensioners and families with children.
I do not want to be associated with those that are willing to support undermining the basic human rights that socialists have fought and sacrificed themselves to secure and protect over generations.
It was inevitable and understandable that the election of Jeremy Corbyn would be a massive culture shock for some sections of the party, especially some members of the parliamentary Labour party.
The U.K. needs to diversify - to become the technological as well as the financial centre of Europe.
Conservatives claim they are 'one nation' Tories when they have actually been a government for the 1% who have undermined our economic interests through their greed.
I'm from the north. You can take the boy out of the north but you can't take the north out of the boy.
The Tories have made a complete mess of Brexit negotiations.
I've always said the left needs to be ready for government.
We stand in the centre ground of the Labour party and our traditions. The policies we are advocating go right back to the beginning.
In terms of mainstream media it's very difficult to break through if you're on the left.
My ambition is to learn to play the trombone. My wife pulls my leg about it. I'll find time, my neighbours might not appreciate it but I'm going to try.
When I had the heart attack I had one stent inserted, which was great.
You've got to demonstrate you're capable of developing policies but, more importantly, you're capable of implementing them.
I call a spade a shovel, straightforward. If I disagree with someone, I tell them.
The assertion that the war in Iraq has had no role in increasing the terrorist threat to Britain is clearly just intellectually unsustainable.
How many times have we seen politicians in office become cut off from the outside world and become unaware that the world has moved on?
The decision over Heathrow expansion exemplifies the style of policy-making that starts with capitulation to a powerful self-interested lobby, blatantly fixes a public consultation and then drives through a policy that destroys any vestiges of green credentials the government had left.
