Roy Jenkins Quotes

"There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good."
- Roy Jenkins
(Related: Enemy)

"The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society."
- Roy Jenkins
(Related: Society)

"The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life."
- Roy Jenkins
(Related: Life, Party)

"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."
- Roy Jenkins
(Related: Politics, Party, Present, Will)

"I am sure Mr Heath thinks he is honest but I wish he didn't have to have his friends say it so often."
- Roy Jenkins
(Related: Friends)

"A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect."
- Roy Jenkins
(Related: Class, Deep, Party)