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

[Criticizing as “appalingly complacent” a Conservative Government report that by the ’60s, Britain would be producing all the scientists needed] Of course we shall.

I’m an optimist, but I’m an optimist who takes his raincoat.

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.

I think in the case of horror, it’s a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.

Chicks named Tammy have a greater chance of actually driving a Mercedes than a chick named Mercedes.

You are learning too much, remembering too much, trying to hard relax a little bit, give life a chance to flow its own way, unassisted by your mind and effort. Stop directing the river’s flow!

Future is an unknown country which requires tough visas for anyone to enter. Not all of us will get the chance to visit it.

We may be in different cities but as long as we are under the same moon then I know we still have a chance.

If you do not read and listen to the opposite ideas, you can always remain a stupid person! Opposite ideas, however contrary they may sound, are your greater chances on the way to truth!

The good may lose; the bad may win! Remember this! Because knowing this increases the chance of the good to win!

I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.