Jon Hudson

When people grow more alienated and isolated, they begin to develop highly irrational and very self-destructive attitudes. They want something in their lives…[t]hey don’t want to be just glued to the TV set. If most of the constructive ways are cut off, they turn to other ways.

In fact when the press discusses [a national healthcare program] they call it “politically impossible.” Meaning the pharmaceutical companies won’t accept it, the insurance companies won’t accept it, and so on.

We have more people than ever using foodbanks, we have a greater number of people being homeless and many people in housing stress.

However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice.

The first less is this: take it from me, every vote counts.

It didn’t take very many forces to destroy huge numbers of natives, not so much because the technology was better, but because the Europeans fought differently. If we were to be honest about the history, we would describe European colonialism simply as a barbarian invasion.

Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.

Russia does not and cannot have any political choice but democracy. I want to say, and even stress, that we share those universal democratic principles taken around the whole world.

People who call themselves supporters of Israel are actually supporters of its moral degeneration and ultimate destruction.

The only way a kid is going to practise is if it’s total fun for him… and it was for me.

There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certain universal values, and that is freedom and democracy.

The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.

I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.

It profits me but little, after all, that a vigilant authority… averts all dangers from my path… if this same authority is the absolute master of my liberty and my life.