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.

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

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

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

War inside countries is all too common.

Squeeze property speculators until the pips squeak.

I've always criticised American policy when I've disagreed with it. Just as I've criticised British policy. I was violently anti-Suez and pro-American in 1956, just as I was violently anti-Soviet on the invasion of Hungary which took place at the same time.