If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.

I think George Bush is the most corrupt American president since Harding in the Twenties. He is not the legitimate president. This really is a completely unsupportable government and I look forward to it being overthrown as much as I looked forward to Saddam Hussein being overthrown.

The market is a brilliant system for the exchange of goods and services, but it doesn't protect the environment unless it's regulated, it doesn't train your workforce unless it's regulated, and it doesn't give you the long-term investment you want.

I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied.

I have met the people who run the world, and I am not in awe of them.

I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law.

Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced.