I think our support for the EEC has been very half-hearted. You really cannot join any group of nations and spend all your time criticising it. The EEC is free Europe getting together. Had we had some vision like that after the first world war , we might never had the second ... my son does not have to go and fight as his father had to fight. Surely that is the most valuable thing of all, the reason for keeping Europe together.

Citizenship should be based on those who have a close and real relationship with this country and its inhabitants.

Rooster, maybe well crows, but the eggs still bears the chicken.

Consensus is the absence of leadership.

No theory of government was ever given a fairer test or a more prolonged experiment in a democratic country than democratic socialism received in Britain. Yet it was a miserable failure in every respect... To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukemia with leeches.

Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism.

I couldn't live without work. That's what makes me so sympathetic towards those people who are unemployed. I don't know how they live without working.