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

- Roy Jenkins

The most moving speech I have ever heard was Hugh Gaitskell saying he would 'fight, fight and fight again to save the party we love. That was the rig…

- Roy Jenkins

The fact is that Harold Wilson is a person no one can like, a person without friends.

- Roy Jenkins

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

- Roy Jenkins

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

- 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

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 do not think you can push public expenditure significantly above 60 per cent and maintain the values of a plural society with adequate freedom of c…

- Roy Jenkins

Many of the early nationalisation measures were right. They have remained part of the social fabric. I favour measures of that type.

- Roy Jenkins