I've been in the Labour Party 50 years and it's 40-odd since I was elected to Parliament

Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.

The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society.

Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow.

Truth is suppressed, not to protect the country from enemy agents but to protect the Government of the day against the people.

Indeed in my blue and white Sheffield Wednesday heart I applauded and supported his loyalty.

One of the problems of our society is that we spend too much time thinking about punishment and not enough about prevention.

A crucial contribution to the ideological argument ...it provides a vital part of the intellectual manifesto on which the battle for a better society can be fought

I've never known a time when the in-fighting in the Labour Party was so bitter.

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Labour has converted to Europe because Europe has converted to socialism.

You take a step, then another. That’s the journey. But to take a step with your eyes open is not a journey at all, it’s a remaking of your own mind.

If you wanna fly high with me you have to play blind on me !!

I believe that God opens doors but closes them if you don’t act when given the opportunity.

Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen.

Reason has, especially today, many other manifestations than philosophical ones.

The wonderful thing about acting is that you can use all of your talents and interests in your work.

Those whom reason hath equalled, force hath made supreme

Perhaps the future of the world would be in better hands if we forgot about discovering something new and concentrated on recovering our past.

I hate the standard of stupid and selfish driving we have in this country. We are the worst I've come across.

For 180 years, we voted in English. That is the true American tradition, and this amendment is true to our heritage, not what has existed unnaturally for the last 20 years.