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

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.

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

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

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

You will either find a way, or an excuse. It depends on how badly you want it in life.

How many senators have taken their conception of what America can do from what they’ve seen on the American movie screen?

These children had never looked death in the face and then chosen to live anyway.

If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he's seeing a crime. He's not seeing a person standing.

The good news is at this point as I get older, the load has gotten heavier but my shoulders have gotten wider because I've gotten happier so it's a damn good thing.

But if applause throws off your timing, then you're not the kind of comedian I would like to see. All you have to do is stand there and take it.

One can't help but be a bit melancholy when you see how the world has changed, and I don't mean that nostalgically.

So, destroy?" Cal asked. Clearly, the conversation was giving his two brain cells a serious workout.

God gives us opportunity to serve him by serving humanity

if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about art we should not believe in war, and we should believe in art.