A week is a long time in politics.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay.

Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.

The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.

I get a little nauseated, perhaps, when I hear the phrase 'freedom of the press' used as freely as it is, knowing that a large part of our proprietorial press is not free at all.

I'm an optimist, but I'm an optimist who takes his raincoat.

Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.

Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.

The ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.

Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.

The heart is a place with worm holes made by feelings you aren't supposed to have but do.

It is often too easy to explain a novel idea to a few enlightened persons with a few words. But to enlighten about the same to many people, too many words are often required

Hatred is a death wish for the hated, not a life wish for anything else.

The greatest thing on earth is a good idea!

Why should I complain about making $700 a week playing a maid? If I didn't, I'd be making $7 a week being one.

Sometimes a day is a symbolic day, and you behave symbolically. Sometimes you search inside for a feeling, and, finding none, you remember that no feeling is frequently the most possible feeling.

What a writer brings to any story is an attitude

You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.

I wouldn't mind doing more in the kid's world because I think that might be just where I can be most useful to society, to the planet, if I can speak to children.