Going for constant growth is not actually delivering a decent standard of living and the prospect of your children having a better life than you do. That is the key thing that politics needs to deliver: a better life for your children. That's why people are taking their lives in their hands and crossing the Mediterranean and the English Channel.

Just because you're gay, I won't turn you away. If you stick around, I'm sure we can find some common ground.

An isolationist America is no bloody use to anyone.

War what is it good for? It's good for business.

Certainly, the international image of the United States today is a lot less positive than 10 years ago. And that really shouldn't be, because you have been the victims of this awful terrorist attack, and I think America deserves the sympathy of the world.

I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me.

Don't saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet been built.