I think democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world, because if you have power you use it to meet the needs of you and your community.

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.

Your style guide is your most loyal brand protector.

There ought to be a robust, uninhibited conversation in black America with different black ideological perspectives.

Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other.

That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.

These have been the most successful years I've ever had. I've been placing well in the contests but more importantly I've been enjoying them. I think those two things go hand-in-hand.

Maybe we can change some kid's life & stop him from becoming a welder or a sleazy lawyer.

I like to think of birthdays as celebrating life." "Only losers acknowledge they survived a year and hope they cheat death again.

The rise of the ecologist almost exactly parallels the decline of the naturalist.

What are you thinking? Nothing. I mean...a lot of things. Kind of all at once.

The soul is here for its own joy.