If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong.

There are hazards in everything one does, but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.

society, while willing to make room for women, is not willing to make changes for them.

The saddest illusion of the revolutionary is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings.

We really shouldnt be running education like a supermarket where you compare prices.

The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.

It would be excellent if he is prepared to listen to other points of view.

I am not interested in a third party. I do not believe it has any future.

We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.

The British civil service ... is a beautifully designed and effective braking mechanism.

The danger of any new party at a time of disillusion with the old parties, is that it becomes all things to all men.

No moment is too small to claim. Strung together, moments fashion a life.

I think sometimes we spend so much time trying to find out who we are we lose sight of who we want to be

What the eyes had seen could not be erased.

It is pleasing to be pointed at with the finger and to have it said, "There goes the man." [Lat., At pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier his est.]

People will always write and think all sorts of things – be irritated by us, have affection for us, think we dress coolly or disastrously. It’s whatever.

I never thought I would ever say this . . . but I'm wearing flats today.

The American people reject the idea of giving Washington a blank check to increase the debt limit.

Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent.

I believe in numbers and signs.

There are no athiests in foxholes.