“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.”

A week is a long time in politics.

One man’s wage increase is another man’s price increase.

The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay.

If we don’t give science its proper place in our national life. We shall no doubt be training all the bullfighters we need, because we don’t use many.

From now on, the pound abroad is worth 14 per cent or so less in terms of other currencies. That doesn’t mean, of course, that the Pound here in Britain, in your pocket or purse or in your bank, has been devalued.

This party is a bit like an old stagecoach. If you drive along at a rapid rate everyone aboard is either so exhilarated or so seasick that you don’t have a lot of difficulty.

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

The Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry.

Selsdon Man is designing a system of society for the ruthlessness and the pushing, the uncaring. His message to the rest is: you’re out on your own.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.

The cumulative effects of the economic and financial sanctions might well bring the rebellion to an end within a matter of weeks rather than months.

The labour party is like a stage-coach.

The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.

Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.

Now that I had actually made love, more astonishingly now that I had been made love to, the fantasies were subtly undermined.

Invaluable….the best one-stop source I’ve seen for what various officials actually said at various times, suffused with intelligent analysis.

I actually find in America, there’s a slight snobbery about actors who go back and forth between big heavy dramas and popcorn fare. That always intrigues me, because that doesn’t exist in the same way in Britain. And I imagine it would be worse.

It’s actually safe to create a universe in your basement.

If the president of the country is not actually saying something, allowing equality to happen, how could you expect to counsel kids not to bully other kids?

the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said

I know Christ. And that is secure. And I think that is something that actually helps believers pursue his holiness.

Actually I like working kind of fast, because if you got it, why bother doing it over and over?