We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

Having served in eleven Parliaments, it would be difficult to describe this as a maiden speech. It would be like Elizabeth Taylor appearing at her next wedding in a white gown.

When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia.

No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his or her hands. Nor does any American President have power approaching this

If you want your debt lifted you've got to sell your school and your hospitals.

There is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. Both kill innocent people for political reasons.

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