I believe the more difficult the circumstances, the more people will be inclined to trust those in charge at the moment.

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.

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

If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.

I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.

The Tory party is the enemy of democracy.

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