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In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it.

Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics.

Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins.

I warn you not to fall ill, I warn you not to get old.

No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons.

American nuclear weapons would almost certainly start being removed from Britain within 12 months of a Labour government gaining power.

I didn't call for a ballot at the start of the miners' strike in 1984. I'll regret that until my dying day.

Mobile phones are the only subject on which men boast about who's got the smallest.

Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.

I'm the guy everybody wanted to live next door. They just didn't want me to be prime minister.

I want to retire at 50. I want to play cricket in the summer and geriatric football in the winter, and sing in the choir.

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.

I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.

Political renegades always start their career of treachery as 'the best men of all parties' and end up in the Tory knackery.

Two negatives don't make a positive, any more than two half-wits make a wit.

Devolutionary reform will not provide a factory, a machine or jobs, build a school, train a doctor or put a pound on pensions.

Harold Wilson is a petty bourgeois and will remain so in spirit even if they make him a Viscount.

We cannot remove the evils of capitalism without taking its source of power: ownership.

I would die for my country but I could never let my country die for me.

The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.

We must not look for some kind of Messiah.

I'm prepared to take advice on leisure from Prince Philip. He's a world expert on leisure. He's been practicing it for most of his adult life.

Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General.

Without false modetsy, I don't think I have a fraction of the talent of either Bevan of Foot.

Someone up there likes me.

I'd like to be remembered as somebody who tried to promote justice.

Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry.

[Marx's theories] gave me a political and intellectual justification for what I believed in a way that nothing else did.

The trouble with the Socialist Workers Party is that they live in an historical thermos-flask.

Newspapers are tutors as well as informers.

The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes.

My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister.

They travel best in gangs, hanging around like clumps of bananas, thick skinned and yellow.