I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.

I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.

The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain.

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

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

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

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

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

Age does take it out of you, and I haven't the energy I had before. Sometimes I have breakfast and sit in this chair, and I wake up and it is lunchtime. In the past, the idea of sleeping through a morning would have horrified me, but you have to accept the limitations that old age imposes on you.

I believe the more difficult the circumstances, the more people will be inclined to trust those in charge at the moment.

I see myself as an old man and an unqualified teacher to the nation. I think being a teacher is probably the most important thing you can be in politics.

I'm not frightened about death. I don't know why, but I just feel that at a certain moment your switch is switched off, and that's it. And you can't do anything about it.

I've been a member of the Labour Party sixty five years, and I remain in it, but I think it's all about campaigning for justice and peace, and if you do that, you get a lot of support.

I've got four lovely children, ten lovely grandchildren, and I left parliament to devote more time to politics, and I think that what is really going on in Britain is a growing sense of alienation. People don't feel anyone listens to them.

I've had a very full life, and I've enjoyed it very much. I've learned a great deal and feel indebted to all the people who have worked so hard.

I've made every mistake - but mistakes are how you learn.

Making mistakes is part of life. The only things I would feel ashamed of would be if I had said things I hadn't believed in order to get on. Some politicians do do that.

My day rotates around my family. I am very lucky.

My filing system is messy but orderly.

Normally, people give up parliament because they want to do more business or spend more time with family. My wife said 'why don't you say you're giving up to devote more time to politics?'. And it is what I have done.

Someone comes every morning at nine o'clock to see if I am still alive. I do get lonely, yes, but I have the children who come and see me. I see all my children every week, and there are the grandchildren, too.

The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.

The uncut diaries are 16 million words. It's very tiring to do your diary every night before you go to bed.

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

Encouragement is the most important thing in the world for young people rather than league tables which demoralise everyone.

Marxism is now a world faith and must be allowed to enter into a continuous dialogue with other world faiths, including religios faiths.

Radical conservatives want to police bedrooms.

I want to be radical on the inside, but not on the outside.

Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.

But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists.

In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.

This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces.

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

As you can imagine I'm disappointed as anything that I was not selected to be the presidential running mate. And I find it continually appalling that it would be a radical thing to have a woman on the ticket.

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

Palestinian ideology has become a lethal cocktail of radical nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism.

Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.

Just as radical heirs apparent are said to lay aside all inconvenient revolutionary opinions when they come to the throne, it was believed that Mr. Mill in Parliament would be an entirely different person from Mr. Mill in his study.

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.

Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just start singing whatever came to mind. I actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing.

And, these Islamic fundamentalists, these radical terrorists, these Middle Eastern monsters are committed to destroying the Jewish nation, driving her into the Mediterranean, conquering the world.

What we're putting forward is the most radical reform of the welfare state... for 60 years. I think it will have a transformative effect in making sure that everyone is better off in work and better off working rather than on benefits.