“I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.”

“The Tea Party is a fitting representation of our era of no-debate, politically correct politics, where each political side has its own media, and opposing views are almost never given a fair hearing. Conservatives listen only to conservatives, and liberals listen only to liberals. People are spared the inconvenience of facts that don’t fit their beliefs and the unpleasantness of seriously considering a point of view other than their own.”

“I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country. ”

“The King! I thought him enough of a philosopher to realize that there is no such thing as murder in politics. You know as well as I do, my dear boy, that in politics there are no people, only ideas; no feelings, only interests. In politics, you don't kill a man, you remove an obstacle, that's all.”

“People who write about politics, whether on the left or the right, have a consistent bias: they take politics seriously.”

“Don't think that the lack of leaders and of a party ideological line means anarchy, if by anarchy you mean chaos,bedlam, and pandemonium. What a tragic lack of political imagination to think that leaders and centralized structures are the only way to organize effective political projects!”