I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.

If one meets a powerful person--Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates--ask them five questions: "What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?

There's people on the left who say, the ballot box is a waste of time. Forget them. When Mandela voted for the first time at the age of 76 there was a lot of grown men, including me, wept buckets. That was what it was about. It doesn't solve things, but it gives you the mechanism to hold to account the people with power.

I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.

If you want your debt lifted you've got to sell your school and your hospitals.

The present combination of corporate or commercial control theoretically answerable to politically appointed Boards of Governors is not in any sense a democratic enough procedure to control the power the broadcasters have.

The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it