Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

I did not enter the Labour Party 47 years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr Mori, Dr Gallup and Mr Harris

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

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

The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.

I'm a democrat - I don't support Bush, I don't support Blair, I don't support Bin Laden.

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.