I Think There Are Two Ways In

The Quickest Way To Get To The Top In Society Probably Is To Be A Blair Babe Now. And Then All Of A Sudden You Find You're Invited To Parties. I Don't Want To Be Cynical, Because I'm Not. But I've Seen It Happen To So Many People Who Move From The Left To The Right So Damn Quickly.

Mandela Didn't End Apartheid In South Africa, The Poor Guy Was In Jail For 27 Years, It Was The African People That Ended It But He Was A Symbol Of Their Struggle. Or Gandhi In India, Gandhi Was A Great Believer In Non-violence And He Was In And Out Of Jail, But India Became Free. I Think It's Better To Look At What People Can Do Collectively And That's Why It's So Important To Encourage Them.

The House Of Lords Is The British Outer Mongolia For Retired Politicians.

I Do Not Share The General View That Market Forces Are The Basis Of Personal Liberty.

It's Lovely To Be Old. I've Got Age, Experience And Zero Personal Ambition. No Body Could Corrupt Me By Anything: Possibly A Job In The Government, A Peerage, A Quango, I Don't Want Any Of It.