Trying to create a sense of common interest does involve getting people actually to work together on common problems. It can't be created by law, that's why I disagree with the liberal approach becuase it's essentially a lawyer's approach.

It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.

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.

War inside countries is all too common.

Many of us in the West have come to feel that the development of technology in the military and economic fields has produced a single world in which the central problems, both military and economic, are going to require co-operation rather than continued confrontation and competition.

Nothing is more dangerous that the politician who uses politics as a surrogate for an unsatisfactory personal life.

An aircraft which is used by wealthy people on their expense accounts, whose fares are subsidized by much poorer taxpayers.