My father still reads the dictionairy every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words

You may see the emergence of a new political party from the body of the trade union movement which represents a very clear-cut socialist alternative policy and which gives expression to the views of the trade union movement in parliament.

Parliament itself would not exist in its present form had people not defied the law.

I have never been an idealist - that implies you aren't going to achieve something.

I wouldn't vote for Ken Livingstone if he were running for mayor of Toytown.

We will pave the way for a transformation and roll back the years of Thatcherism...We will turn economic ruin into economic recovery, and above all pave the way for a General Election to elect a Labour Government.

The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.