He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

The Tories always hold the view that the state is an apparatus for the protection of the swag of the property owners ... Christ drove the money changers out of the temple, but you inscribe their title deed on the altar cloth.

The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it

The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.

Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.

He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.