Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.

I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues.

Just because I am critical of the coalition doesn't mean I am anti-English. I am just anti-scumbags.

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

I employed my wife for three years to sit in the attic and type up my autobiography, 700 pages, organise everywhere I go. I'm paying the normal rate of tax on the money I take out for myself.

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

The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.