I have never been an idealist - that implies you aren't going to achieve something.

The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing.

My father still reads the dictionairy every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words

All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.

Only a fool wants a confrontation and only a fool wants a strike.

There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.

Parliament itself would not exist in its present form had people not defied the law.

I wouldn't vote for Ken Livingstone if he were running for mayor of Toytown.

If youve got an industry where youve got massive investment, it doesnt matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose the money on that industry.

I sense a learning: that much dumber people than you end up in charge.

No one's family is normal. Normalcy is a lie invented by advertising agencies to make the rest of us feel inferior.

As the expert in knowing yourself, you get to decide what you want to explore in your internal landscape.

What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune.

I'm a cat whisperer. When I go to people's houses, their cats always like me better than the owners.

These clashes are the only evolu-tionary possibility which will enable us one day, now that Fate has given us the Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, to create the Germanic Reich.

Politics /n/: from 'poly ticks', short for 'many small bloodsucking insects'.

It is better to begin a great work than to finish a small one.

As we search the Scriptures, we must allow them to search us, to sit in judgment upon our character and conduct.

Every one who has labored honestly in the past has aided to place knowledge and comfort within the reach of a constantly increasing number.