There's a lot of people I've encouraged and helped to get into the House of Commons. Looking at them now, I'm not so sure it was a wise thing to do.

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.

We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament.

There is no question of any erosion of essential national sovereignty.

Protectionism is the institutionalization of economic failure.

We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

The unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism.

I said it three times actually.

Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.

I do not often attack the Labour Party, they do it so well themselves.

In a world full of cruelty and hatred, be loving and kind so that you may transform the perception of life.

Being human makes us one. Be uniquely ourselves makes us individual." - Nancy S. Mure, Author of Unidentical Twins

Walking on a road without seeing and planning for what's down the road will almost certainly catch you off-guard and may turn out to be a harsh blow, sometime or other.

My purpose is to have American Jews look away from the success story with which they've cheered themselves up, and to have them remember the classical tradition, whatever it is.

There is no man who hates the power of the crown more, or who has a worse opinion of the Person to whom it belongs than I.

You can make initial contact with someone who does not speak your language with signs or smiles, but to communicate you need words. So it is with a nation; to understand it you have to read its books

I think people believe that I give ant aura of someone who has both feet on the ground.

Purpose is not an add-on, it’s not an initiative. It is a culture change and it never finishes

What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company?