If one meets a powerful person--Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates--ask them five questions: "What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?

My alternative to American superpower is the UN and I might add when China becomes the worlds greatest superpower you will need it too.

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

Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself.

There may be a legal obligation to obey, but there will be no moral obligation to obey. When it comes to history, it will be the people who broke the law for freedom who will be remembered and honoured.

Marxism is now a world faith and must be allowed to enter into a continuous dialogue with other world faiths, including religious faiths

An MP is the only job where you have 70,000 employers, and only one employee.