Every dog is allowed one bite, but a different view is taken of a dog that goes on biting all the time. He may not get his licence returned when it falls due.

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.

A week is a long time in politics.

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.

That's life. Life is the ultimate game, and its rules were made to be broken

I think that overall, the position - on a whole host of issues - should always be toward inclusion and equality.

A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves.

Love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.

Now there is so much expertise and brainpower it's hard to be at the cutting edge of what's cool and not do something that's totally geeky.

If you've got comic book fans and soap fans and country fans, I think you've hit the whole world. What else is there?

There is no greater virtue than honesty.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

I'm good with telling people what I think, too, but I don't know why people are so content to treat each other poorly.

A good man doesn't just happen. They have to be created by us women. A guy is a lump like this doughnut.