I don't want to commit myself in advocating a definite republican constitution which will get bogged down with the question of who would elect the President and when.

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.

The feelings resembled memories

I'd be lying if I said I didn't want youI'd be lying if I said I didn't wish you were mineThe truth is, you stole my heart from afarThe truth is, you still have it.

I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.

I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.

Oppression is as American as apple pie.

I don’t know of a better argument in favor of farming with horses than trying to start an old tractor in the winter time.

I didn't really think of myself as being a muse.

If my life was a play, age 35 was my intermission.

Socialism without public ownership is nothing but a fantastic apology.

Good girls don't hurt other people's feelings. Good girls are not overly aggressive, competitive, or boastful. Good girls please others. But what good girls are good for is another question.