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 tough….

An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern..

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

Remember, imperialism is always presented as humanitarian: the white man's burden, the cross going round the world, the poor benighted natives, the s….

The people who have sacrificed their view in order to get to the top have very often left no footprints in the sands of time..

The Tory party is the enemy of democracy..

Change always follows the same pattern. If you come up with something new they try and put you off.If that doesn't work they call you stark raving bo….

When Blair was elected leader of the Labour Party, he said, "New Labour is a new political party" - that was the phrase he used, and I'm so glad he s….

Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself..

If one meets a powerful person--Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates--ask them five questions: "What power have you got? Where did you get it from?….

People in debt become hopeless and hopeless people don't vote. They always say that that everyone should vote but I think that if the poor in Britain….

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

When I saw how the European Union was developing, it was very obvious what they had in mind was not democratic. In Britain, you vote for a government….

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..

It is not surprising that more and more people are coming to the conclusion that the ballot box is no longer an instrument that will secure political….

There may be a legal obligation to obey, but there will be no moral obligation to obey. When it comes to history, it will be the people who broke the….

If democracy is ever to be threatened, it will not be by revolutionary groups burning government offices and occupying the broadcasting and newspaper….

The way a government treats refugees is very instructive..

I'm interested in language. We used to call it the War Office. Then it became the Ministry of Defence. We used to talk about the hydrogen bomb, now w….

I do not share the general view that market forces are the basis for political liberty. Every time I see a homeless person living in a cardboard box ….

The one thing that is absolutely essential is that there shouldn't be any governmental control [of the media] directly or indirectly..