“Whatever organisation we try to create, it always ends up looking like the Communist Party.”
Obituary, The Economist, 6th November 2010 p. 107
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Regarding Communists; hearing before the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare (1953)

Speech to Christian Democratic Union Conference (25 May 1976) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/103034
Leader of the Opposition
Context: In some European countries, we now see Communist parties dressed in democratic clothes and speaking with soft voices. Of course we hope that their oft-proclaimed change of heart is genuine. But every child in Europe knows the story of little Red Riding Hood and what happened to her in her grandmother's cottage in the forest. Despite the new look of these Communist parties, despite the softness of their voices, we should be on the watch for the teeth and the appetite of the wolf.

As quoted in "China's new President Xi Jinping: A man with a dream" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-21790384 in BBC News (14 March 2013).
2010s

“The Communist Party must be a revolutionary party our it will cease to be a Communist Party.”
Tim Buck A Conscience for Canada

From his "speech to the nation", after the Lebanon Conference in May 1944.

Source: The New Left: The Resurgence of Radicalism Among American Students (1966), p. 103

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