Quotes from Michael Foot

He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.

Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.

Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read.

People must learn more and more that the strength of this country is the democratic power of the trade union movement.

Men of power have not time to read, yet men who do not read are not fit for power.

The members of our secret service have apparently spent so much time under the bed looking for communists that they haven't had the time to look in the bed.

All is fair in love and war and Parliamentary procedure.

She has no imagination and that means no compassion.

Men of power have not time to read, yet men who do not read are not fit for power.

Men of power have not time to read; yet men who do not read are unfit for power

A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.

The only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress.

In my opinion, Marxism is a great creed of human liberation. It is the creed which says that when all other empires fade and vanish, our business is to enlarge the empire of the human mind.

Most liberties have been won by people who broke the law.

She has no imagination and that means no compassion.