In the end, the tragedy of Harold Wilson was that you couldn't believe a word he said

My alternative to American superpower is the UN and I might add when China becomes the worlds greatest superpower you will need it too.

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.

I think very often the boat-rockers turn out to be the people who are building the craft

I don't want to commit myself in advocating a definite republican constitution which will get bogged down with the question of who would elect the President and when.

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

I met somebody once who said, "I'm a lapsed-atheist" by what he meant was, "I don't believe in God but the older I get the more I realise there is a spirituality in everybody that has to be cherished and nourished." That made a lot of sense to me.