I don’t want to commit myself in advocating a definite republican constitution which will get bogged down with the question of who would elect the President and when.
I believe the more difficult the circumstances, the more people will be inclined to trust those in charge at the moment.
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.
It is tempting to deny, but if you deny you confirm what you won’t deny.
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 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.
The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don’t fully appreciate.
The flag of radicalism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago over Dachau and Belsen.
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.
An MP is the only job where you have 70,000 employers, and only one employee.
The present combination of corporate or commercial control theoretically answerable to politically appointed Boards of Governors is not in any sense a democratic enough procedure to control the power the broadcasters have.
The Internet is only the street corner meeting on a big scale.
I do not share the general view that market forces are the basis of personal liberty.
The 1973 Labour Conference will have before it the most radical programme the Party has prepared since 1945.
Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.
She believes in something. It is an old-fashioned idea.
Marxism is now a world faith and must be allowed to enter into a continuous dialogue with other world faiths, including religious faiths.
It is wholly wrong to blame Marx for what was done in his name, as it is to blame Jesus for what was done in his.
In developing our industrial strategy for the period ahead, we have the benefit of much experience. Almost everything has been tried at least once.
Britain’s continuing membership of the Community would mean the end of Britain as a completely self-governing nation.