The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

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.

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman.

I am the voice of the voiceless.

Better the discomfort that leads to repentance and restoration than temporal comfort and eternal damnation.

I'm not a win at all costs guy. Winning isn't everything. It's second to breathing.

She was like a butterfly, full of color and vibrancy when she chose to open her wings, yet hardly visible when she closed them.

This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement

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

A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.

If we can't find cuts in the defense budget, we're not looking carefully enough.