I take notice of those who have argued consistently for the modernisation of the E.U., but so many of the skeptics in Britain are just hostile to the whole European idea.

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.

Harold Wilson is a petty bourgeois and will remain so in spirit even if they make him a Viscount.

Compassion is not a sloppy sentimental feeling for people who are underprivileged or sick... it is an absolutely practical belief that regardless of a person's background, ability or ability to pay, he should be provided with the best that society has to offer.

Political renegades always start their career of treachery as 'the best men of all parties' and end up in the Tory knackery.

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

They travel best in gangs, hanging around like clumps of bananas, thick skinned and yellow.