I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

If you want your debt lifted you've got to sell your school and your hospitals.

The peace movement here is the biggest thing in human history.

Having served in eleven Parliaments, it would be difficult to describe this as a maiden speech. It would be like Elizabeth Taylor appearing at her next wedding in a white gown.

If you read Mein Kampf, Hitler's book, which I have outside, I bought it when I was eleven, Hitler said, "democracy inevitably leads to Marxism" - now you work that one out. It's so interesting that when the poor have the vote they will use it to remove the privileges of the rich.

A faith is something you die for; a doctrine is something you kill for; there is all the difference in the world.