The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.

World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy.

The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them.

I came into politics because I wished to change things. You can't do that by lying to people; you have to educate, and persuade, and carry them with you - and it's often a long haul.

Thatcher was prepared to destroy the world rather than give in on something she believed in.

I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues.