You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.

If I kissed my wife in public, I'd lose the next election.

I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.

We should not be pushing out figured when the facts are in the opposite direction.

Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos.

He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.

Why should I question the monkey when I can question the organ grinder.

There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.

The hero's need of the people outlasts their need of him.

Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.

A Society in which the people's wants do not exceed their possessions is not a Socialist society.

Virtue is its own punishment.

There are two ways of getting into the Cabinet - you can crawl in or kick your way in.

Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.

In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia.

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.

The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.

Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual.

Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.