There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up.

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

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

There is no connection between imperialism and democracy. I mean when we ran an Empire which we did when I was born, there was no democracy anywhere.

Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself.

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.

We are paying a heavy political price for 20 years in which, as a party, we have played down our criticism of capitalism and soft-peddled our advocacy of socialism