It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

Franklin Roosevelt stands like a sharply formed rock in a shapeless sea. spoken on Book TV by a Jackson biographer.

It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the next government.

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

I think serving your government is the greatest thing in the world.

Not in terms of wage restraint. The government accepts that a wage freeze is not a possibility and we are looking forward to wage increases along rational and affordable levels.