I think very often the boat-rockers turn out to be the people who are building the craft

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

An MP is the only job where you have 70,000 employers, and only one employee.

I am a public library

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.

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

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.