Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.

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.

Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don't laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions.

The intimate space of your personal life should be reserved for amazing, beautiful, radiant souls — good, wholesome and loving people.

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.

Debating, doubting, or rejecting the basic scientific facts about climate change in the face of the overwhelming evidence and overwhelming scientific opinion will not change those facts.

I'm kind of intimidated by the big screen - I often keep my performances much smaller and much more natural and subtle.

Trails need to be reconstructed. Please avoid building trails that go uphill.

That was clearly a tackle aimed at getting revenge - or maybe it was just out-and-out retribution.

I don't want my kids to ever think that I am choosing my job over them.

There's nothing as real as money.

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.