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Everything from the infrastructure we build to the products we use must now be aimed squarely at building a zero-carbon world.
Encouragement is the most important thing in the world for young people, rather than league tables, which demoralise everyone.
When you think of the number of men in the world who hate each other, why, when two men love each other, does the church split?
I can't go to bed if I haven't done my diary. I always record them just as I've always recorded all my interviews and speeches.
Food movement organic food stores supplies health food products and facilitate with instrumental support in organic agriculture.
The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it
I think if you're going to be committed to doing anything, you really have to care about it, and I suppose that is a romantic idea.
When the democratic deficit is so enormous, people are left with very little option but to take peaceful, non-violent direct action.
We must instil our future leaders with the expertise, knowledge and skills to prevent climate breakdown and restore nature to health.
The one thing that is absolutely essential is that there shouldn't be any governmental control [of the media] directly or indirectly.
We know that Brexit would make our poorest communities poorer still. That it would make the powerless even less able to effect change.
My alternative to American superpower is the UN and I might add when China becomes the worlds greatest superpower you will need it too.
GDP simply measures the circulation of money in the economy, not whether or not the outcome of using that money is positive or negative.
Marxism is now a world faith and must be allowed to enter into a continuous dialogue with other world faiths, including religious faiths
[I am against] the Treaty of Rome which entrenches laissez faire as its philosophy and chooses bureaucracy as its administrative method.
When this coronavirus crisis is over, what kind of society will we be? A more important question is what kind of society do we want to be?
When it comes to topping the 'least popular' lists, MPs have form. Typically, we're pipped to the post only by bankers and traffic wardens.
The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain.
When you get to No 10, you've climbed there on a little ladder called 'the status quo'. And when you are there, the status quo looks very good
The creation of regional mayors has done little to reduce the sense that all power is concentrated in Westminster, and all investment in London.
I've had a very full life, and I've enjoyed it very much. I've learned a great deal and feel indebted to all the people who have worked so hard.
I think democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world, because if you have power you use it to meet the needs of you and your community.
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
In developing our industrial strategy for the period ahead, we have the benefit of much experience. Almost everything has been tried at least once
The flag of racialism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago over Dachau and Belsen.
I am a longstanding critic of British foreign policy - and an opponent of the authoritarian, quasi-imperialist, racist, homophobic politics of Putin.
The Labour party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it - a bit like Christians in the Church of England.
There is no connection between imperialism and democracy. I mean when we ran an Empire which we did when I was born, there was no democracy anywhere.
I've been in the Green party for a very long time - when was it, 1986 - and I joined the party because I seriously wanted the party to have influence.
I think to understand how the democratic process works is the most important thing, so people don't get frightened by it, and get put off, and give up.
Reminding oneself that not all rules are good rules and sometimes it's good to challenge them is an important part of being an effective parliamentarian.
I see myself as an old man and an unqualified teacher to the nation. I think being a teacher is probably the most important thing you can be in politics.
The Civil Service is a bit like a rusty weathercock. It moves with opinion then it stays where it is until another wind moves it in a different direction
If a prime minister can suspend parliament to deliver a 'no deal' Brexit, what will the government try to do next with no democratic scrutiny or oversight?
There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up.
No more top-down politics with Westminster dictating what's right for every community. We must all be partners in designing a better future for our country.
Trump is surrounding himself with so many climate sceptics and when he himself says he thinks climate change is a Chinese hoax then there are real concerns.
You have to try to build support around causes. It is uniting to campaign on a single issue, and it is never just a single issue; it's always more than that.
If you're going to make sense of politics you have to have a historical perspective and also recognise that you have to work with people you don't agree with.
I don't think Ed Miliband has the courage of his convictions. He's scared he'll be painted by the rightwing press as a throwback to the time of the 'big state.'
Our railways maintain a healthy economy and society. They keep businesses running and families close. They're a vital public service and must be treated as such.
Our economy is failing far too many - forcing parents to use foodbanks to feed their children, demonising migrants and condemning all of us to climate breakdown.
Bush is actually encouraging the spread of nuclear weapons because the one thing I do know is if Iran did have nuclear weapons they wouldn't be threatening them.
There is good and bad in all of us and the Church uses the idea of original sin to control us by saying that, if we do not obey the bishops, we will rot in Hell.
We can no longer allow special corporate interests to shape our political and financial decisions, while our citizens and communities cry for real climate action.
Other countries are developing well-being economies - we should do the same. That is the way to create a society which would stand the test of time - for everyone.
We are paying a heavy political price for 20 years in which, as a party, we have played down our criticism of capitalism and soft-peddled our advocacy of socialism
My interest was in renaissance literature, looking at how men were writing for women in the 1590s, a time when many women were being taught to read but not to write.
I don't want to commit myself in advocating a definite republican constitution which will get bogged down with the question of who would elect the President and when.
Anyone from abroad will tell you that it is the class system that really lies at the root of our problems, economic and industrial. The House of Lords symbolises that.