Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.

It is quite clear to me that the Tory Party will get rid of Mrs Thatcher in about 3 years time.

There is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much as it pays its prime minister, 250 times as much as it pays its members of Parliament and 500 times as much as it pays some of its ministers of religion.

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

The ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.

[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.

The cumulative effects of the economic and financial sanctions might well bring the rebellion to an end within a matter of weeks rather than months.