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

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

Be careful how you treat those who you perceive to be below you. The universe has a way of favoring the underdog.

Be patient in affliction.

Love is not measured by acts or years, but by truth between two people.

No empty words and gestures, but hands filled with hands, hands pointing the way, hands tracing new lines as age slowly creases its course from the corners of my eyes.

American girls never whimper.

Let's raise our glass and let the hammer fly, yeah, this is the long good-bye.

We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them.

I think part of a beauty routine is how you feel and checking in with your inner self, and so I made that commitment to myself to do that.

I have a sensible set of values that tell me to never lie.