Michael Foot
Michael Foot
Michael Mackintosh Foot PC FRSLwas a British Labour Party politician and man of letters. Foot began his career as a journalist, becoming editor of Tribune on several occasions, and the Evening Standard newspaper at the age of just 28. He co-wrote the classic polemic against appeasement of Hitler, Guilty Men, under a pseudonym...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth23 July 1913
father taught influence
Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read.
insanity nuclear world
A Britain which denounced the insanity of the nuclear strategy would be in a position to direct its influence at the United Nations and in the world at large, in a manner at present denied us
secret bed looks
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.
believe people coal
The national strike of the miners in 1972 performed, I believe, a great service, not only to the miners, but the people in Britain today who wanted coal
men sound curse
The only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress.
country people movement
People must learn more and more that the strength of this country is the democratic power of the trade union movement
attitude law judging
[There are] judges who stretch the law...to suit reactionary attitudes.
thinking eunuchs selected
Think of it! A second chamber selected by the Whips. A seraglio of eunuchs.
political rising periods
He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.
apology socialism fantastic
Socialism without public ownership is nothing but a fantastic apology
country past rights
It does so happen to be the case that if the freedom of the people of this country-and especially the rights of trade unionists-if those precious things in the past had been left to the good sense and fairmindedness of judges, we would have precious few freedoms in this country.
unemployment wages economics
You can have a wages policy imposed by mass unemployment.
party people favour
I have never been in favour of expelling people from the Labour Party.
littles world imagine
Politicians live in little worlds of their own and imagine they are the universe.