It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

The Labour Party believes in turning workers against owners; we believe in turning workers into owners.

The truths of the Judaic-Christian tradition, are infinitely precious, not only, as I believe, because they are true, but also because they provide the moral impulse which alone can lead to that peace, in the true meaning of the word, for which we all long. . . . There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women in democratic societies cannot be touched by a call to something greater than themselves.

Dictators can be deterred, they can be crushed - but they can never be appeased.

People from my sort of background needed Grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn.

Why in the world anyone in America is allowing another language (other than English) to be his first... I don't know

It is not the business of politicians to please everyone.