In the end, the tragedy of Harold Wilson was that you couldn't believe a word he said

There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up.

The way a government treats refugees is very instructive.

If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.

I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.

The Labour party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it - a bit like Christians in the Church of England.

We are paying a heavy political price for 20 years in which, as a party, we have played down our criticism of capitalism and soft-peddled our advocacy of socialism

The Tory party is the enemy of democracy.

I think very often the boat-rockers turn out to be the people who are building the craft

The flag of racialism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago over Dachau and Belsen.

Have patience and keep working. Everything will come alright in time.

If God had wanted us to judge other people, we'd all have been born with silly wigs.

The ones you help you get up are the ones who know how it feels to fall down.

Happiness is a condition of the soul. This joyous state comes as a result of righteous living.

Our parts matter because we matter.

I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree: The intention of the Holy Spirit is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how the heavens go.

Trust me, when they read the [Oscar] results, my face was...frozen. But then I thought about it, and I just decided just to...let it go.

Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.

Time is not an absolute reality but an aspect of our consciousness.

Everybody thinks they have the answer to how to be a good parent. Here's mine: Everybody's gonna make mistakes.