I wouldn't vote for Ken Livingstone if he were running for mayor of Toytown.

The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing.

My father still reads the dictionairy every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words

I have never been an idealist - that implies you aren't going to achieve something.

All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.

Only a fool wants a confrontation and only a fool wants a strike.

There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.

Parliament itself would not exist in its present form had people not defied the law.

If youve got an industry where youve got massive investment, it doesnt matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose the money on that industry.

You're not allowed to say anything about books because they're books, and books are, you know, God.

It is quite proper to meet a young man at a cocktail party and go on to dinner with him. If he is attractive, you can consider yourself not only correct, but lucky.

Some people need a theology of an angry God to justify their anger against sinners.

Disease cannot live in a body that's in a healthy emotional state.

The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act.

I do not know its name. I call it the Way. For the lack of better words I call it great.

I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.

Until my legs break off or I get paralyzed, I can play this way. It helps me be me.

I have built a moat around myself, along with ways over that moat so that people can ask questions.

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.