The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered.

There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.

The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life.

A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect.

Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective.

The real issue for the public is to figure out which narrative do we want. We can have a bigger government, if that's the public's choice. It'll just require higher taxes on every American. Do you want that, or do you want smaller government, smaller taxes?

A lot of people like a lot of money. They shouldn't go into politics.

But today, government is taking those rights from us, pretending that it gives us our rights. Indeed, those rights come from God, and it was recognized throughout our history as such.