The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

Without false modetsy, I don't think I have a fraction of the talent of either Bevan of Foot.

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

That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition of liberty is a form of primitive religion.

At various times in the next 20 or 30 years I think it reasonable to anticipate that I will be among the leadershp of the Labour Party, but as far as being leader, I can't see it happening, and I'm not particularly keen on it happening.

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.

Two negatives don't make a positive, any more than two half-wits make a wit.