Being attacked by him is like being savaged by a dead sheep.

Karl Marx himself preferred a glass of claret to the mug of tea affected by some of his recent converts.

Socialism to me is establishing social control of power in society, and where that differs from liberalism for example which aims at a similar situation in some respects, is we think you can only establish control over power by changing the structure and distribution of power, notably economic power.

I've got a happy marriage, which is the most important singular thing.

We cannot hope to achieve full employment and sustain it until we have mastered inflation.

Unless you understand the history of a situation, you can't ever hope to solve problems.

The Americans have a very active presence and policy in every single part of the world and if we broke with them, we would lose any possibility of influencing them. They would go in for global unilateralism, and the world would be a more dangerous place.