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.

Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins.

No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons.

I must emphasise that there is nothing in the Labour Party constituion that could, or should prevent people from holding opinions which favour Leninist-Trotskyism. Certainly Marxism has, and will continue to have an important function in the Labour Party.

We cannot remove the evils of capitalism without taking its source of power: ownership.

You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.

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.