Jeremy Corbyn

Why are we putting people who are already in a vulnerable position through this dreadful, appalling stress?

Of course we as Labour Party members must all be free to criticise and oppose injustice and abuse wherever we find it. But as today’s Report recommends, can we please leave Hitler and Nazi metaphors alone (especially in the context of Israel). Why? Because the Shoah is still in people’s family experience.

I would have set out very quickly the relationship with Europe.

Legal aid is fundamentally important in a democratic, civilised society.

We can win an awful lot of people into the political spectrum, by offering something that is … radical.

I think we have to push robustly for the limitation of arms supplies … Israel is after all facing an investigation … for war crimes, [at the International Criminal Court] as indeed are the Hamas forces on a much different or lesser scale.

My own view is that the CIA is very much under the control of executive power….It often looks as though it’s undertaking initiatives on its own, but that’s because the executive wants to preserve deniability.

It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me. I mean, there are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster’; instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do. If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees. But then you take a look at what the corporation does, the effect of its legal structure, the vast inequalities in pay and conditions, and you see the reality is something far different.

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it’s important.

If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven’t done much today.

It would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mistake to feel comfortable in any circumstance just because Israel did not act on it.

Any negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election.

You can build a throne of bayonets, but you can’t sit on it for long.

…there is definitely a sector of the population that considers themselves threatened by big forces, ranging from the Federal Reserve to the Council on Foreign Relations to big government to who knows what and are calling for guns to protect themselves.

There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.

One of they key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace. Good people don’t go into government.

There was no collusion. Everybody knows there was no collusion.

The European reaction to Obama is a European delusion.

I think if this country gets any kinder or gentler, it’s literally going to cease to exist.

The Obama policies [2016] are to try to pressure Mexico to keep Central American immigrants from coming anywhere near us. Who are the Central American immigrants? These are people fleeing from the wreckage left by US government policies.