Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.

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.

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.

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.

Life is so short that no sooner have you heard the whistle to “get set & go”, you have reached the finish line nearing the death-toll.

Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!

What is worthwhile in life? I think it is worth living and dreaming. If you don't you may be dead anyhow - inside.

Being born in New York City, tends to lead to big expectations, expectations that I only started to realize after I had left.

Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying.

Unfounded hate only multiplies quarrels.

The best part of work is always working with people and getting to know them and having the sense that you're not actually working.

I don't believe in outing people. It's up to the individual, but there's nothing wrong putting the pressure on.

I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated.

With strength to lift mountains and spirit to take on the World