Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.

There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up.

The way a government treats refugees is very instructive.

If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.

I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.

The Labour party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it - a bit like Christians in the Church of England.

We are paying a heavy political price for 20 years in which, as a party, we have played down our criticism of capitalism and soft-peddled our advocacy of socialism

The Tory party is the enemy of democracy.

I think very often the boat-rockers turn out to be the people who are building the craft

The flag of racialism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago over Dachau and Belsen.

I did not enter the Labour Party 47 years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr Mori, Dr Gallup and Mr Harris

I am commanding you, as an older and wiser brother, to get over here, get on this caterpillar, and ride to the top of this mushroom with me.

Of course I have a name. All the stars do.

Confidence and Hard work is the best medicine to kill the disease called failure. It will make you successful person.

The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime

I like the boundaries, the kinds of conventions of a documentary and having to work within that.

Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.

In the music industry, you meet some not very nice people, some very strange characters.

When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen

I ask you to ensure that humanity is served by wealth, and not ruled by it.

Our creation is the modification of relationship.