“Everybody should have an equal chance – but they shouldn’t have a flying start.”

The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay.

Over and above communication and vigilance, there are two factors I have always mentioned. They are sleep, and a sense of history.

Tories never actually talk about getting rid of their leader, then suddenly there us a flash of steel between he shoulder-blades and rigormortis sets in.

All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.

The government have only a small majority in the House of Commons. I want to make it quite clear that this will not affect our ability to govern. Having been charged with the duties of Government we intend to carry out those duties.

We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution

In politics a week is a very long time.

I get a little nauseated, perhaps, when I hear the phrase ‘freedom of the press’ used as freely as it is, knowing that a large part of our proprietorial press is not free at all.

I’m going on, and the Labour government’s going on.

If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I’d have it tinned. With vinegar.

If you rattle along at great speed everybody inside is too exhilarated or too seasick to cause any trouble. But if you stop everybody gets out and argues about where to go next.

I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night’s sleep.

The ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.

At home and abroad I have repeatedly been asked what are the main essentials of a successful prime minister.

I’ll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.

Johnny Depp is one of my favorite actors because he takes chances.

On the stage you get the chance to do all that, to analyze and build a part, to react, to contribute something no one else can-not the author, not even the director.

The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.

I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.

Kill them, turn back time to the moment before I had talked so that I could have another chance to save myself.

I loved you long before you loved me. It’s the only thing i have you beat at, and i’ll bring it up every chance i get.

The nation was not founded by habitual groupthinkers. But it stands a fair chance of being destroyed by them.