I see myself as an old man and an unqualified teacher to the nation. I think being a teacher is probably the most important thing you can be in politics.

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.

I love waking up to the sound of babies laughing. Unless it is at 1 am and you live alone...

Into each life some rain must fall some days must be dark and dreary.

Where fear is happiness is not.

Everything should be made as simple as possible ... but not simpler.

A battle goes on in the stock market and the tape is your telescope. You can depend upon it seven out of ten cases.

By and large, musicians respect New York audiences, and also are greatly concerned about New York reviews.

I'm a bit famous now! It's a bit strange!

The devil is an angel too.

I've worked myself to exhaustion before. I was so young, and I thought I could do everything; it was just too much for my body and my mind.

I like to think that I'm giving a voice to the silenced.