Quotes by Roy Jenkins

• We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected.
• There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.
• The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society.
• The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life.
• 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.
• I am sure Mr Heath thinks he is honest but I wish he didn't have to have his friends say it so often.
• A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect.