Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay.

Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.

The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

A week is a long time in politics.

If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.

I get a little nauseated, perhaps, when I hear the phrase 'freedom of the press' used as freely as it is, knowing that a large part of our proprietorial press is not free at all.

I'm an optimist, but I'm an optimist who takes his raincoat.

Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.

The ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.

The Earth must have done some noble work

My kingdom has fallen because I had built it with power, but the kingdom of Jesus Christ will last forever because it was built on love. - Napoleon Bonaparte

'Reality' is a notion that journalists take for granted.

The richness of Africa, culturally, is vast. That's the challenge that we have to face, because most of the time, people in the western world, their attention span is really narrow.

The goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful action in the present

Love is only a small thing, enough for one person, and any suggestion that the heart might be larger than this is considered perverse.

But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.

I enjoy doing my more intimate and less commercial pictures and also I enjoy directing.

Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum.