I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so.

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.

We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament.

There is no question of any erosion of essential national sovereignty.

Protectionism is the institutionalization of economic failure.

We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

The unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism.

I said it three times actually.

Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.

I do not often attack the Labour Party, they do it so well themselves.

But there is one cool thingabout having a weirdo mother.She works so hard at rememberingwhere she left herselfshe doesn’t have timeto work on me.

Jingle bells, they ring in hell, never to be merry, they'll burn, they'll burn, please my dear be weary

Expect the worst and you won't be surprised

Fashion has always been very generous. Think of what it has done for curing AIDS.

Indeterminism does not confer freedom on us: I would feel that my freedom was impaired if I thought that a quantum mechanical trigger in my brain might cause me to leap into the garden and eat a slug

Acknowledge people, not their jobs.

I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.

My looks have prevented people from seeing my work.

You know, it's always good to have a synonym just for variety.

No possible combination of circumstances can keep a man down, if he makes his personal attitude right and determines to rise.