There are two ways of getting into the Cabinet - you can crawl in or kick your way in.

No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.

The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it

How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.

No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets

The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land.

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Potential has a shelf life.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

The world has become jaded. Romance has died, some no longer believe in love, and because of this, they suffer.

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

There are so many quirky characters, its easy to fall in love with any number of the characters on The Carrie Diaries.

Friends are like bras: close to your heart and there for support.

My recovery, though slower than hoped for, is nevertheless assured.

Worldliness is whatever makes sin look normal and righteousness look strange.

He has a song in his heart for me. I hope it is not "Shut Uppa You Face, Whatsa Matta You.

Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.