It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.

I grew up in the 30s with an unemployed father. He didn't riot; he got on his bike and looked for work and he kept looking 'til he found it.

Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but its quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.

Opinion polls are not worth the paper they are written on, in my view, through the conference season. They don't settle down again until November.

The Muslim religion is so unreformed since it was created that nowhere in the Muslim world has there been any real advance in science, or art or literature, or technology in the last 500 years.

The BBC is another part of the destruction of Great Britain. The truth is that the BBC doesn't know that it is biased. It thinks that Guardian reading champagne socialists are the norm.

He (John Major) has the mulishness of a weak man with stupidity.

I haven't got a racist bone in my little finger.

My dad didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work

[The poll tax] was a classic case of a good idea being entrusted to Chris Patten and becoming a terrible failure.

I think that could be perhaps a little misleading and even our statistics can mislead people at the times though they are not misleading in themselves. It is just that people get mislead

Any marriage that exists without a sound level of unconditional love, shouldn't be called a marriage in the first place.

For me, the life of the angler is an almost flawless example of how not to have a good time.

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

How do we find a way out? By realizing that there's no place to go, that there's no way out, that there's no way in. All that exists is the Self.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

I don't think everybody has a right to a weapon which can be used to kill innocent people and maybe threaten the life of a president of the United States.

Now everybody is mafia. You got the Russian mafia, the Mexican mafia. Everybody is mafia these days.

If you go with that spirit, good things will come for you. If you go into it with an assumption that you're a genius and that you're entitled to something, it's a little tougher.

The sole way to save oneself is to save others. Or to struggle to save others -even that is sufficient.

I can no more imagine falling in love with someone who believed that than I can imagine falling in love with someone who believes that blacks shouldn't be able to vote and are inferior to whites.