Mobile phones are the only subject on which men boast about who's got the smallest.

People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics that is not applied in the real world and doesn't address the real challenges and paradoxes and agonies is a hobby.

I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.

Is Tony Blair of the Labour party? The answer to that is profoundly 'yes', but that is not how, sentimentally, he is regarded in the Labour movement generally.

I warn you not to fall ill, I warn you not to get old.

Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry.

New!Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.