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

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.

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.

Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.

Wisdom begins at the end.

One day you're gonna ask that to the wrong girl who is really struggling and it's gonna be hurtful to them. And I hate it.

I haven't reached nirvana yet, but I've been to Detroit.

When armies are mobilized and issues joined, the man who is sorry over the fact will always win.

China is the greatest mystifying and stupefying fact in the modern world.

I think I appeal to people who are living in the margins because of their identity and who need to feel freedom somewhere.

We may not know the way God leads...but we know God leads! We do not know the way...but we know the Guide!

One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.

The association between failure, loneliness, and solitude is so strong in our culture that people often find it difficult to believe that there are some who like being by themselves.

Wall Street is littered with the bones of those who knew just what to do, but could not bring themselves to do it.