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.

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 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.

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.

The peace movement didn't stop the Iraq but I think that Blair would not be able to go along and support an Iranian war.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

It is obvious I shall have to abandon my hopes of getting the Queen's head off the stamps.