Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.

Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.

[Criticizing as "appalingly complacent" a Conservative Government report that by the '60s, Britain would be producing all the scientists needed] Of course we shall, if we don't give science its proper place in our national life. We shall no doubt be training all the bullfighters we need, because we don't use many.

I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.

If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.