Undoubtedly the war with Iraq was a tragedy. I think it was also a crime.

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.

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

You have to take your job seriously, but you can't take yourself seriously.

Time is like the wind, it lifts the light and leaves the heavy.

Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.

History shows you don't know what the future brings.

Some people think, if you're in the public eye, that you have to have an answer for everything and it has to be boring.

We have to figure out how to let go, and forgive. This is our job.

I would so much rather have a few of good friends than a lot of fake friends.

I think I had a lot of bad hair moments. In the early 80's just sometimes I wore purple lipstick or green lipstick.

I think the natural is, for many people, the gateway to something supernatural or otherworldly.