The First World War created the Second World War because that was a war between three grandsons of Queen Victoria: The King of England, the Kaiser and the Tsar married Queen Victoria's granddaughter. And that triggered Communism in Russia and Fascism in Germany and led to the Second World War.

I think democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world, because if you have power you use it to meet the needs of you and your community.

There is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. Both kill innocent people for political reasons.

Britain's continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation...

She believes in something. It is an old-fashioned idea

Well, it all began with Democracy. Before we had the vote all the power was in the hands of rich people. If you had money you could get health care, education, look after yourself when you were old, and what democracy did was to give the poor the vote and it moved power from the marketplace to the polling station, from the wallet...to the ballot.

Although socialism is widely held by the establishment to be outdated, the things that are most popular in British society today are little pockets of socialism, where areas of life have been excluded from the crude operation of market forces and are protected for the benefit of the community