It's Lovely To Be Old. I've Got

The Marxist Analysis Has Got Nothing To Do With What Happened In Stalin's Russia: It's Like Blaming Jesus Christ For The Inquisition In Spain.

The People Who Have Sacrificed Their View In Order To Get To The Top Have Very Often Left No Footprints In The Sands Of Time.

I Do Not Share The General View That Market Forces Are The Basis For Political Liberty. Every Time I See A Homeless Person Living In A Cardboard Box In London, I See That Person As A Victim Of Market Forces. Everytime I See A Pensioner Who Cannot Manage, I Know That He Is A Victim Of Market Forces

After The War People Said, 'if You Can Plan For War, Why Can't You Plan For Peace?' When I Was 17, I Had A Letter From The Government Saying, 'dear Mr. Benn, Will You Turn Up When You're 17 1/2? We'll Give You Free Food, Free Clothes, Free Training, Free Accommodation, And Two Shillings, Ten Pence A Day To Just Kill Germans.' People Said, Well, If You Can Have Full Employment To Kill People, Why In God's Name Couldn't You Have Full Employment And Good Schools, Good Hospitals, Good Houses?

Someone Comes Every Morning At Nine O'clock To See If I Am Still Alive. I Do Get Lonely, Yes, But I Have The Children Who Come And See Me. I See All My Children Every Week, And There Are The Grandchildren, Too.