An MP is the only job where you have 70,000 employers, and only one employee.

Democracy is not just voting every 5 years and watching 'Big Brother' in between and wondering why nothing happens. Democracy is what we do and say where we live and work

If the Queen can reject the advice of a minister on a little thing like a postage stamp, what would happen if she rejected the advice of the Prime Minister on a major matter? If the Crown personally can reject advice, then, of course, the whole democratic facade turns out to be false

The one thing that is absolutely essential is that there shouldn't be any governmental control [of the media] directly or indirectly.

An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.

I think if journalists were responsible for international policy we'd have a nuclear war every week.

There is no connection between imperialism and democracy. I mean when we ran an Empire which we did when I was born, there was no democracy anywhere.