When you get to No 10, you've climbed there on a little ladder called 'the status quo'. And when you are there, the status quo looks very good

The present combination of corporate or commercial control theoretically answerable to politically appointed Boards of Governors is not in any sense a democratic enough procedure to control the power the broadcasters have.

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

Choice depends on the freedom to choose and if you are shackled with debt you don't have the freedom to choose.

Change always follows the same pattern. If you come up with something new they try and put you off.If that doesn't work they call you stark raving bonkers.If that doesn't work they lock you up like the suffragettes.Then, after a pause, the change happensand you can't find anyone that doesn't claim to have been fighting for it with you.

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

People in debt become hopeless and hopeless people don't vote. They always say that that everyone should vote but I think that if the poor in Britain or the United States turned out and voted for people that represented their interests there would be a real democratic revolution.