It is time Britain put its trust back into the Labour Party. I believe I am the candidate that can make this happen precisely because I am not associated with the past.

I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.

Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.

White people love playing 'divide & rule'. We should not play their game.

Being an MP is a good job, the sort of job all working-class parents want for their children -- clean, indoors and no heavy lifting. What could be nicer?

Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have.

I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.

I'm not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I'm the only one who's questioned about it.

My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.

When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark corners of the room and are bombarded with latest gadgets. Things replace parental standards.

So long as the UK continues to maintain its own identity, it is my belief that the US and the UK should maintain close relations.

But if I hadn't fallen, I wouldn't have met you.

Music has become my driving force behind my life, it to me, can fix bad moods, bad days, even bad people. It is the beat of my life.

... none of them had it. They had no qualms about stealing, but they needed to be told. They liked to be told, and Viktor Chemmel liked to be the teller. It was a nice microcosm.

There must be darkness to see the stars.

Not all books are created equally, but, all books are created.

Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.

Hillary Clinton has been outsmarted and outplayed worse than anybody I've ever seen in any government whatsoever.

I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness

Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.

I've certainly been to Hollywood parties, and I have friends that are ridiculous - wonderful people - but they're high rollers with tons of money.