To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine

The fact that seasoned politicians can say such ridiculous things - and get away with it - illustrates the degree to which the new dogma... has swept through the left-of-centre governing classes.

A world without nuclear weapons may be a dream but you cannot base a sure defence on dreams. Without far greater trust and confidence between East and West than exists at present, a world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

There is nothing inevitable about rising unemployment.

Is there conscience in the Kremlin? Do they ever ask themselves what is the purpose of life? What is it all for?... No. Their creed is barren of conscience, immune to the promptings of good and evil.