If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay.

Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.

The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

A week is a long time in politics.

If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.

I get a little nauseated, perhaps, when I hear the phrase 'freedom of the press' used as freely as it is, knowing that a large part of our proprietorial press is not free at all.

I'm an optimist, but I'm an optimist who takes his raincoat.

Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.

Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.

I wasn't always who I am now. No one ever is. I've spent my entire lifetime becoming who I am. Finally, I'm here and I'm old. It's depressing, it really is.

Men whose trade is rat-catching love to catch rats the bug destroyer seizes on his bug with delight the suppressor is gratified by finding his vice.

For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it.

The prime minister is 12 years old. She looks after 20 goats in the morning, but she's prime minister in the evening.

I wish there was a word more than 'love' itself to convey what I feel for you.

I'm not as focused on my acting career as I have been in the past.

My true Self is free. I cannot be contained.

I love Bridget Fonda.

...If at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best; yet none of them are false, and it is all one story.

I was never charged with tax evasion. I've never been a tax protester.