The Labour party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it - a bit like Christians in the Church of England.

I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them.

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.

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

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

If democracy is destroyed in Britain, it will be not the communists, Trotskyists or subversives but this House which threw it away. The rights that are entrusted to us are not for us to give away. Even if I agree with everything that is proposed, I cannot hand away powers lent to me for five years by the people of Chesterfield. I just could not do it. It would be theft of public rights.

The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.