In politics a week is a very long time.

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.

Don't blame me. Tell your mom to move closer. Tell her there's this new club called civilization and you guys should join.

No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away.

I've said my patience is not infinite.

I just wanted to fit in as a teenager, but it was hopeless.

I honestly in a lot of ways don't want to sing about my real life, because that's private.

I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.

A pitcher never gets me out. I get myself out. That's no disrespect to the pitcher, but there should be no excuse for failure. You can't have an excuse to fail.

Everytime you forgive you disappoint the devil.

The natural formation of the country is the soldier's best ally

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.