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

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?

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

Mandela didn't end Apartheid in South Africa, the poor guy was in jail for 27 years, it was the African people that ended it but he was a symbol of their struggle. Or Gandhi in India, Gandhi was a great believer in non-violence and he was in and out of jail, but India became free. I think it's better to look at what people can do collectively and that's why it's so important to encourage them.

Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.

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

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