Quotes from Roy Jenkins

There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.

Each successive Labour Government has been the most rapacious, doctrinaire and unpatriotic conspiracy to be seen this side of the Iron Curtain.

The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life

The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society

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A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect.

I am sure Mr Heath thinks he is honest but I wish he didn't have to have his friends say it so often.

We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected

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.