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.

I'm a democrat - I don't support Bush, I don't support Blair, I don't support Bin Laden.

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

I've made every mistake - but mistakes are how you learn.

I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.

I'm interested in language. We used to call it the War Office. Then it became the Ministry of Defence. We used to talk about the hydrogen bomb, now we talk about a deterrent. And the language is very cleverly constructed to give the impression that it's not what it is.

Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself.