I'm a democrat - I don't support Bush, I don't support Blair, I don't support Bin Laden.

Bush is actually encouraging the spread of nuclear weapons because the one thing I do know is if Iran did have nuclear weapons they wouldn't be threatening them.

Parliamentary democracy is, in truth, little more than a means of securing a periodical change in the management team, which is then allowed to preside over a system that remains in essence intact. If the British people were ever to ask themselves what power they truly enjoyed under our political system they would be amazed to discover how little it is

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

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.

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

I've got four lovely children, ten lovely grandchildren, and I left parliament to devote more time to politics, and I think that what is really going on in Britain is a growing sense of alienation. People don't feel anyone listens to them.