You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.

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.

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

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.

Mind was crafted to preserve some and forget some. We have to decide when to choose delete button.

Cursed greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused. -- Virgil

The loss of psalmody in the church is one of the early indicators of the loss of faith.

To focus energy on the less important things in life, hinder creating a solution to solve those problems that are of the most importance.

Jackie had a keen eye for talent, and like an elephant never forgot. And, he was always right on the mark.

Philosophy alone can boast (and perhaps it is no more than the boast of philosophy), that her gentle hand is able to eradicate from the human mind the latent and deadly principle of fanaticism.

I mean, I didn't ever watch 'Gilligan's Island' and think, 'Those people are actors.' I lived in West Virginia. Hollywood just felt like this total other universe.

I find the mantle of, she works hard for the money, or, she's overcome so many obstacles a bit overused.

I smoked my first cigar in 1991, when we won the championship. Up to that point, I had never smoked a cigar, never smoked anything.

I think I would abolish schools which systematically inculcate sectarian beliefs.