If you read Mein Kampf, Hitler's book, which I have outside, I bought it when I was eleven, Hitler said, "democracy inevitably leads to Marxism" - now you work that one out. It's so interesting that when the poor have the vote they will use it to remove the privileges of the rich.

I don't want to commit myself in advocating a definite republican constitution which will get bogged down with the question of who would elect the President and when.

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

Making mistakes is how you learn.

It is obvious I shall have to abandon my hopes of getting the Queen's head off the stamps.

I do not share the general view that market forces are the basis of personal liberty.

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.