I want everyone to put their views forward, every union branch, every party branch, so we develop organically the strengths we all have, the imagination we all have.

United we stand, divided we fall is one of the oldest and truest slogans of the Labour movement.

What kind of city are we living in, if we encourage the development or ownership of large, expensive properties for investment and land banking... while people are sleeping on the streets?

Our Jewish friends are no more responsible for the actions of Israel or the Netanyahu government than our Muslim friends are for those of various self-styled Islamic states or organisations.

You should never be so high and mighty you can't listen to somebody else and learn something from them. Leadership is as much about using the ear as using the mouth.

I don't respond in any way to personal abuse that is thrown at me.

I decided to invite Donald Trump on his visit to Britain to come with me to my constituency because he has problems with Mexicans and he has problems with Muslims.

Sorry, but we live in a democracy and the Government has to be responsive to Parliament.

Why are we putting people who are already in a vulnerable position through this dreadful, appalling stress?

I would have set out very quickly the relationship with Europe.

The people of Aleppo have suffered like no one else for so long. There has to be a political solution.

...even good marriages sometimes involve flinging a remote control at the wall.

The older they get, the better they get when they were younger

Chris book focuses on the author’s strong belief- America is only one generation away from new heights of greatness.

I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.

Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it.

Heav'n is not always got by running.

...the tourist Venice is Venice.

TV is gratifying in the long-term. We [writers] find ourselves knowing who we can go to for a laugh, or who we can go to for a good emotional moment, and then milking those things.

I don't need anything to live, to be honest. Give me a mattress or a futon on the floor and I'll be the happiest camper.

Live for an ideal, and that one ideal alone. Let it be so great, so strong, that there may be nothing else left in the mind; no place for anything else, no time for anything else.