Sometimes I manage to get conditions alleviated, often not.

My own electorate, which I represented for 36 years as an anti-apartheid politician, had a considerable number of Jewish voters supporting me throughout my career.

I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for.

I can say unequivocally that the boycott does not work. It's never complete enough to have impact unless it's backed by force, and I don't think anybody in America seriously proposes that.

I am provocative, and I admit this. It isn't as if I'm only on the receiving end, a poor, frail little creature. I can be thoroughly nasty when I get going, and I don't pull my punches.

The immediate present belongs to the extremists, but the future belongs to the moderates.

When you teach, you learn." "And I really don't go for religions of any kind. ...I reject them all....There were principles I thought were very important.

All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis.

It is not my questions that embarrass South Africa – it is your answers.

It is the answers, not the questions, that are embarrassing.

When you teach, you learn.

The high-heeled shoe is a marvellously contradictory item; it brings a woman to a man's height but makes sure she cannot keep up with him.

The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.

Terrorists are not 100 feet tall. Nor do they deserve the abject fear they seek to instill.

Color is the essence of painting, which the subject always killed.

My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff.

I was born the same week NASA was founded, so we're the same age and feel some of the same pains, joys, and frustrations.

An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!

What better way to discover the unknown than to follow your instincts instead of your plans.

Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political.