I've made every mistake - but mistakes are how you learn.

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 want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon but i want to STAY ALIVE.

We're not the same people we were then. We've changed, we've grown.

There is nothing typical about my profession.’ Suddenly I did not want to talk about it any longer. ‘I don’t want to talk about it any longer.

I like you. Therefore I will decorate you with qualities you don't have.

If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.

I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.

Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries on earth. Security issue or no security issue, there would need to be a focus on it.

I love improvisation.

If any of you get hernias in this tug-of-war against the Army, I'll pay to get them fixed.

When we talk about fighting for our country, we're talking about our vote, our vote is our arms.