- [speaking in 2004] "This could be the final corruption: in the end you're seen as a kindly, harmless old gentleman. Well I am kindly, I am old, I could be a gentleman but I'm certainly not harmless."
- I am teetotal and vegetarian, so I do live on tea. I don't like Earl Grey tea, but it may be a class prejudice against earls.
- A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.
- All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
- I'm not a member of New Labour, I'm a member of the Labour Party.
- You can't wish away centuries of tradition and thought and aspirations with a few spin doctors and a few tame journalists.
- New Labour is the smallest political party that's ever existed in Britain.
- When I first met Nelson Mandela he was a terrorist, when I next saw him, he was a Nobel Prize winner and the President of South Africa.
- We've tried to make capitalism work with good and humane Labour governments and we haven't succeeded because it can't work, because it rests on injustice.
- 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 have known Peter Tatchell since 1981 and have the greatest respect for him as a man of principle, consistent in his convictions, non-violent in his methods and wholly committed to the rights of homosexuals to equal treatment before the law as a matter of human rights. This view is not universally shared but it is, at last, becoming accepted by the House of Commons in the drafting of legislation. It is not necessary for anyone to agree with Mr. Tatchell's opinions on this matter, or even to approve of his methods of campaigning, for his own complete integrity to be recognised.
- An Educated Public is harder to Govern.
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