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.

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.

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.

Do you know what Margaret Thatcher did in her first Budget? Introduced VAT on yachts! It somewhat ruined my retirement.

Prayer fuels power for life.

Let your words merely reiterate what your actions have already stated.

Taking notes at a pub in Salisbury, I was mistaken for a health inspector!

Truth is a golden thread, seen here and there In small bright specks upon the visible side Of our strange being's party-coloured web.

Let us learn to dream, gentlemen; then we shall perhaps find the truth.

The most important thing about being a father is being able to forgive yourself. If you don't forgive yourself, you're not going to forgive your kids, either.

What I gave out in the form of words would return to me as experiences.

Every success creates new opportunities. So does every failure.

The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.