Austin Mitchell quotes

There's a vast class - the poor, the underprivileged, the people least likely to vote - who are not represented any more.
-- Austin Mitchell

#Class #People #Vote

She ( Margaret Thatcher )is democratic enough to talk down to anyone
-- Austin Mitchell

#Enough #Democratic

Gordon Brown now bestrides politics and the media like the Colossus of Dunfermline. Whatever happened to Tony Blair?
-- Austin Mitchell

#Media #Blair #Brown

There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.

I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.

The disenfranchised offspring, along with an entire ageless class of human discards, know only that they are doomed. They are drawn to spikes and pentagrams, gasoline, guitars screaming like whips, MIDI-programmed Thanatos, with sufficient amplitude to occupy that hollow space where consciousness once resided. These Dionysians obliterate themselves by removing filters, ultimately becoming insensate with sensation. This mode of behaviour originates in the superstitious belief that transcendence is acquired in the precise ratio by which reason is destroyed.

Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'

Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.

Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.

The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.

Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.

All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.

I don't expect people to agree with all my votes.