Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution

I am a public library

The Internet is only the street corner meeting on a big scale

I think to understand how the democratic process works is the most important thing, so people don't get frightened by it, and get put off, and give up.

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

I see myself as an old man and an unqualified teacher to the nation. I think being a teacher is probably the most important thing you can be in politics.

People would do well to ask themselves how many of their ambitions and aspirations derive from the type of economic system they inhabit and the insecurity and exhaustion it creates, and question the sense and purpose of a society where control of a large portion of life is abdicated under contract in the labour market, and where immense creativity and potential is stifled by the need to do difficult and repetitive tasks in order to earn a wage.