56 Quotes by Dennis Skinner

I always work on the principle that if my heart and my head are together on an issue, write it, say it.

If I am doing a speech at a Labour party meeting - I think I have done every constituency - I'll look for a happy face, and talk to that face. In the Commons, with all the anger, I'll fix on a blank panel above their heads.

Well, I don't believe in patronage.

I refused to pair with a Tory MP, I refused all foreign junkets and I've never had a drink in a Westminster bar.

I've never bothered about what people say about me.

I do rely on my instincts a lot and my imagination.

I was cycling until I was 68. I used to play football, cricket, tennis, table tennis. I was into road walking - heel and toe.

I don't think you should celebrate age.

If I'd not been a coal miner in the past, getting up very early, I wouldn't have been able to have done what I've been doing.