As a democratic Socialist profoundly committed to the rule of law, I could not condone, let alone encourage, defiance of the law.

What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.

I do not believe there is a long-term future for the privately rented sector in its present form.

We still retain in Britain a deeper sense of class, a more obvious social stratification, and stronger class resentments, than any of the Scandinavian, Australasian, or North American countries.

I am...wholeheartedly a Galbraith man.

We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

We are all ignorant once and only when someone or something that knows more than us, comes in.

Movies lost their appeal when people realized their real lives were more interesting.

The best thing to do is to behave in a manner befitting one's age. If you are sixteen and under try not to go bald.

I've never done a teen movie before, but I certainly could tell you some of the ones I came very close on. I was very close on Clueless and She's All That.

We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.

There is a social need within our lives as human beings to have harmony.

From now on, depressions will be scientifically created.

Pleasure, so called, is the murderer of serious thought. This is the age of excessive amusement. Everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle!

When it comes to exercise, I don't like anything that's too serious.