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?

I'm a democrat - I don't support Bush, I don't support Blair, I don't support Bin Laden.

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

The quickest way to get to the top in society probably is to be a Blair Babe now. And then all of a sudden you find you're invited to parties. I don't want to be cynical, because I'm not. But I've seen it happen to so many people who move from the left to the right so damn quickly.

The one thing that is absolutely essential is that there shouldn't be any governmental control [of the media] directly or indirectly.

The way a government treats refugees is very instructive.

Middle class Labour leaders are recaptured by the establishment when they die.