56 Quotes by Dennis Skinner

I've never made a perfect speech or a perfect anything. I always think after, I should have done it that way or this way.

I don't believe in organised happiness.

I was elected by people voting Labour! The idea that you come to Parliament and the first thing you do is that you're hand in hand with Tories and Liberals - I can't understand it! I came here and I made my mind up that I wasn't going to collaborate with the people I'd fought against in the election. It wasn't a difficult thing.

I was shaped by a pit environment and the Second World War. My playground was on the pit tip at Clay Cross and I grew up with that mining background. My father was a miner and my granddad was a miner, and I would say three out of ten on the street where I was born were working in the pits.

You don't enter politics when you come to parliament. I was getting politics for breakfast, dinner and tea when I was a little kid.

I realised that you could get into trouble with a dull speech.

I worked in the pit for more than 20 years and never had a serious injury.

Parties are organised happiness but happiness is accidental. You can't legislate for it.

Isn't it essential in any prelude to a war to be sure of your allies and be sure of your objectives?