Harold Wilson is a petty bourgeois and will remain so in spirit even if they make him a Viscount.

The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.

The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished.

I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.

I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me.

I'm prepared to take advice on leisure from Prince Philip. He's a world expert on leisure. He's been practicing it for most of his adult life.

We cannot remove the evils of capitalism without taking its source of power: ownership.

Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General.

The unforgivable political sin is vanity, the killer diet is sour grapes.

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

They travel best in gangs, hanging around like clumps of bananas, thick skinned and yellow.

The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.

I loved Wilson Pickett, so I just went on from there. I became sort of a semi-groupie because, I don't know, I got bitten by the music bug.

We are looking for a Wealth Tax that will bring in sufficient revenue to justify having a wealth tax.

To the question, "When were your spirits at the lowest ebb?" the obvious answer seemed to be, "When the gin gave out."

Luck favors the people who are willing to grind it out.

The future belongs to freedom, not to fear.

I believe that if doors don't open, make new doors. So I also have started producing quite a bit of things as well.

We can always create more inventory. You don't just turn people away. The challenge is finding new ways to accommodate people.

Be interested rather than interesting

I swim in a pool of my own neurosis. I carry love, grief deeply, like an Irishman.