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.

Selsdon Man is designing a system of society for the ruthlessness and the pushing, the uncaring. His message to the rest is: you're out on your own.

We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution

I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.

The labour party is like a stage-coach. If you rattle along at great speed everybody inside is too exhilarated or too seasick to cause any trouble. But if you stop everybody gets out and argues about where to go next.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay.

The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.