There is good and bad in all of us and the Church uses the idea of original sin to control us by saying that, if we do not obey the bishops, we will rot in Hell.

I think to understand how the democratic process works is the most important thing, so people don't get frightened by it, and get put off, and give up.

Thanks to the tabloid campaigns I have many death threats and I was very pleased to get another one the other day.

When you get to No 10, you've climbed there on a little ladder called 'the status quo'. And when you are there, the status quo looks very good

When I saw how the European Union was developing, it was very obvious what they had in mind was not democratic. In Britain, you vote for a government so the government has to listen to you, and if you don't like it you can change it.

I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner

It is obvious I shall have to abandon my hopes of getting the Queen's head off the stamps.