Dennis Skinner : (6)

" I’ve never bothered about what people say about me. " - Dennis Skinner

" We’re allowed to say wonderful things about the Royal Family in the House of Commons. What you’re not allowed to say is: anything that might be truthful, but that might upset them. So from time to time I’ve been pulled up because I’ve said things which I think are important. " - 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. " - Dennis Skinner

" We dragged the National Health Service from the depths of degradation. I’ve got a United Nations heart bypass to prove it and it was done by a Syrian cardiologist, a Malaysian surgeon, a Dutch doctor and a Nigerian registrar. " - Dennis Skinner

" Well, I don’t believe in patronage. " - Dennis Skinner

" There are only so many things you can do in life, and if you think I’m going to spend my waking hours thinking about some decency in some Tory or other, forget it. " - Dennis Skinner