Choice depends on the freedom to choose and if you are shackled with debt you don't have the freedom to choose.

I really think in the Commonwealth of Europe you should have Russia. I listed a hundred countries that would be in it and it would then be a really European United Nations.

Making mistakes is how you learn.

The Internet is only the street corner meeting on a big scale

If you're going to make sense of politics you have to have a historical perspective and also recognise that you have to work with people you don't agree with.

If I were the American President I would rather be popular than have the power the destroy the world because however many puppets they have all over the Middle East - Saudi Arabia, Egypt and so on - they haven't got support from the people.

If I rescued a child from drowning, the press would no doubt headline the story: 'Benn grabs child