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

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.

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

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

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

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

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

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

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

I take notice of those who have argued consistently for the modernisation of the E.U., but so many of the skeptics in Britain are just hostile to the whole European idea.

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

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

If we are going to have a bicameral parliament, I think there should always be a reserved place for people whose background and experience are critical to the welfare of the nation.

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

Is Tony Blair of the Labour party? The answer to that is profoundly 'yes', but that is not how, sentimentally, he is regarded in the Labour movement generally.

Margaret Thatcher was not a malicious person. She was a person who couldn't see, or didn't want to see, the unfairness and disadvantaging consequences of the application of what she thought to be a renewing ideology.

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.

Newspapers are tutors as well as informers.

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

People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics that is not applied in the real world and doesn't address the real challenges and paradoxes and agonies is a hobby.

People, even independently minded people, do to an extent draw their impressions from what they are told, especially if they are told it incessantly by newspapers.

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

There are politicians who seethe with ambition all the time, and there are a lot of other politicians who don't. I'm in the second category, that's all.

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

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

In every aspect of life, including the economic dimension, we are always challenged to do the right thing. In many cases in the market system, which allows a great deal of latitude for human choice, people can get carried away to excess.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess.

Never order food in excess of your body weight.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off.

This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.

We'd dub the one that came off best into the final transcription. It gave us a chance to ad lib as much as we wanted, knowing that excess ad libbing could be sliced from the final product.

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I've certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can't ignore it, especially when you get into telecom.

One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case.

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

You're in a mess, and in excess.