There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons.

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.

I'm Allen Walker!"My life....is over...I'm going to die....

Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science.

I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.

One may not condemn a man for succeeding financially because he knows how. Neither may one with justice take away for a man what he has fairly earned, to give to men of less ability.

It’s like watching a starving pig eat his own klunk.

Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.

If Donald Trump shows signs of backing out of Europe, the Russians might be willing to stay out of his confrontation with Iran. If he follows Obama's program in Europe, things might be different.

Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool.

I feel like humor is a part of life. I don't think it comes through as much in the novels as it does in my head.

There is an element of delusional obsession in the French political elite's preoccupation with the notion that France is still a global power.