The Civil Service is a bit like a rusty weathercock. It moves with opinion then it stays where it is until another wind moves it in a different direction

The New York Times said, "There are two superpowers in the world: the United States and the world peace movement."

If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.

I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.

I think democracy is not a destination. I don't think socialism is a railway station and if we catch the right train with the right driver, we'll get there. I think it's a way of thinking about things and every generation has to do it again.

Middle class Labour leaders are recaptured by the establishment when they die.

Experience is the only real teacher and if you keep a diary you get three bites at educating yourself - when it happens, when you write it down, and when you reread it and realise you were wrong. Making mistakes is part of life. The only things I would feel ashamed of would be if I had said things I hadn't believed in order to get on. Some politicians do do that.