If ever I left the House of Commons it would be because I wanted to spend more time on politics.

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.

Your character determines how many followers you will have.

Most Christians speak to God about their mountain instead of speaking to their mountain about God!

Lying - remembering beauty in truth.

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.

It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.

Drawing is like studying Greek and piano- you can't speak or play in your conscious, which is clumsy. You must get it into your subconscious, which is graceful. But that takes time.

The world is what it is and won't be bargained with.

It's easier to list Hollywood and TV people who don't have a radio show now, take less time to do that than to list those who do.

Honestly, I feel really grateful for everything.

Young adults that actually read are reading bodice rippers and best-sellers and me. And Horror.