I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.

There is now a desperate need for a London-wide left caucus of those interested in the GLC and local councils so that we can compare and discuss what is happening in each borough.

World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy.

The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.

Consultation is a good thing when people agree with you, and a waste of time when people don't agree with you

If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish It

If I blew my nose the Daily Express and the Daily Mail would say that I am trying to spread germ warfare.

Every year the international finance system kills more people than the Second World War. But at least Hitler was mad, you know.

To tackle climate change you don't have to reduce your quality of life, but you do have to change the way you live

I liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues.

I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law.

The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.

I'm raised from gutter to protect another gutter

I warn you all, hatred is finding fertile soil within me. And in your compassion, in your every good intention, you nurture it.

Necessity is our quickest excuse.

Jesus didn't die so we could fill auditoriums, he died so that lives could be transformed.

Until you have courted the bluebills in the snow, you have not tasted of the purer delights of waterfowling

I think there's a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever.

I like movies that are about real people in real time with real problems.

To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.

In the midst of an ordinary training day, I try to remind myself that I am preparing for the extraordinary.