A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect.
– Roy Jenkins
A substantial extension of public ownership is an essential pre-requisite of greater equality of earned income.
– Roy Jenkins
Each successive Labour Government has been the most rapacious, doctrinaire and unpatriotic conspiracy to be seen this side of the Iron Curtain.
– Roy Jenkins
I am sure Mr Heath thinks he is honest but I wish he didn't have to have his friends say it so often.
– Roy Jenkins
The fact is that Harold Wilson is a person no one can like, a person without friends.
– Roy Jenkins
The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered.
– Roy Jenkins
The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life.
– Roy Jenkins
The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society.
– Roy Jenkins
The politics of the left and centre of this country are frozen in an out-of-date mould which is bad for the political and economic health of Britain and increasingly inhibiting for those who live within the mould. Can it be broken?
– Roy Jenkins
There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.
– Roy Jenkins
There is a lot of talk about a centre party - and that I might lead it. I find this idea profoundly unattractive.
– Roy Jenkins
We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected.