The Internet is only the street corner meeting on a big scale

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.

Letter make words. Words make stories. And stories can be changed with strong enough magic.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

I'm a 'bleeding-heart liberal,' one of those card-carrying Democrats that Rush Limbaugh thinks is a communist. And I'm proud of it.

You dont live on the Earth you want, you live on the Earth you have.

If you can't find the next McDonald's, I'll find the next McDonald's. But it's vital to be with people who with looking for 'em, because they do exist. They are created.

We are all ignorant; just about different things.

The worst thing we can do is put the (other) team in a one-and-one.

Euclid for children is barbarous.

Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play.

It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.