If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it.
I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.
Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it.
I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business.
The civil service are risk averse.
You lose power in Britain and you are just Joe Public again.
I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.
Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.
I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.
If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.
Well, I mean, I'm very much a pragmatic person.
Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced.
I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.
I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.
I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law.
Most people wouldn't want to marry a politician.
Thatcher was prepared to destroy the world rather than give in on something she believed in.
I'm an emotional person; I do occasionally shed a tear.
I think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises.
I would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I'd had a better voice I could have been prime minister. It is the most irritating voice in public life.
