When you teach, you learn." "And I really don't go for religions of any kind. ...I reject them all....There were principles I thought were very important.

My own electorate, which I represented for 36 years as an anti-apartheid politician, had a considerable number of Jewish voters supporting me throughout my career.

I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for.

I can say unequivocally that the boycott does not work. It's never complete enough to have impact unless it's backed by force, and I don't think anybody in America seriously proposes that.

I am provocative, and I admit this. It isn't as if I'm only on the receiving end, a poor, frail little creature. I can be thoroughly nasty when I get going, and I don't pull my punches.

The immediate present belongs to the extremists, but the future belongs to the moderates.

All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis.

It is not my questions that embarrass South Africa – it is your answers.

It is the answers, not the questions, that are embarrassing.

When you teach, you learn.

Debate is almost non-existent and no one is apparently accountable to anybody apart from their political party bosses. It is bad news for democracy in this country.

A voteless people is a hopeless people.

Admiration: Our polite recognition of another man's resemblance to ourselves.

Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn't formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them.

Want what you have and you will always get what you want.

Tony Blair is the best friend I've had in politics.

The best gift you can give someone is a part of your soul.

If you want a blank spot on the map, you gotta leave the map behind.

Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known.

You cannot kill an ideology with a bullet. You can only kill it with a better idea.