He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets

I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.

I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.

There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.

I know that the right kind of leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine who must not in any way permit himself to be swayed by indignation. If he sees suffering, privation or injustice he must not allow it to move him, for that would be evidence of the lack of proper education or of absence of self-control. He must speak in calm and objective accents and talk about a dying child in the same way as he would about the pieces inside an internal combustion engine.