"Well, I'd like to leave you with a joke."

"It wasn't only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public."

"Liberals have become utterly, pathetically illiberal and it’s a massive problem. What’s the point of calling yourself a liberal if you don’t allow anyone else to have a different view? You know, this …"

"It was imperative to make common cause with the oppressed, in order to secure a new system opposed to the ambitions and governing habits of the oppressors."

"In the final analysis there was no one you could trust to drink with you to the bottom of the bowl."