Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.

I've got four lovely children, ten lovely grandchildren, and I left parliament to devote more time to politics, and I think that what is really going on in Britain is a growing sense of alienation. People don't feel anyone listens to them.

My filing system is messy but orderly.

Age does take it out of you, and I haven't the energy I had before. Sometimes I have breakfast and sit in this chair, and I wake up and it is lunchtime. In the past, the idea of sleeping through a morning would have horrified me, but you have to accept the limitations that old age imposes on you.

There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons.

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.