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.

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.

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.

I did not enter the Labour Party 47 years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr Mori, Dr Gallup and Mr Harris

In modern democracies, one is always too few and two are always too many

Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.

Our task is not to bring order out of chaos, but to get work done in the midst of chaos.

Arizonians are deeply proud of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's service to this country. She will always be remembered by Arizonans and all Americans as an extraordinary public servant.

Mascara is my go-to product before stepping out of the house.

Humor is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect.There is always a laugh in the utterly familiar.

I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms.

I always want to make sure that I am wearing what I love. What makes you feel good. And you're not wearing for anyone else but yourself.

It’s just been my experience that some kinds of working relationships are better motivated by fear than by monetary gain.

There is a sacredness in tears