Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics.

I am the first male member of my family for about three generations who can have reasonable confidence in expecting that I will leave this earth with more or less the same number of fingers, hands, legs, toes and eyes as I had when I was born.

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

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

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

American nuclear weapons would almost certainly start being removed from Britain within 12 months of a Labour government gaining power.

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.