Democracy is not just voting every 5 years and watching 'Big Brother' in between and wondering why nothing happens. Democracy is what we do and say where we live and work

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.

There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.

Innovation is the heart of humanity. We need new ideas and new creativities to help address contemporary issues.

If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.

My mum translated this in her head to "witchfinder, " which was good because like most West Africans, she considered witchfinding a more respectable profession than policeman.

Good golf is easier to play-and far more pleasant-than bad golf.

The more I trust my intuition and act on its wisdom, the more extraordinary my life becomes.

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.

I didn't want to skate for someone else or for certain marks.

The ocean governs the climate and the weather, it is taking care of the temperature and it is shaping the chemistry of our planet.