Mum and Dad met campaigning on the Spanish civil war. Both were active peace campaigners. They died in 1986 and '87.

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.

but, he also said it because part of him wanted more of her, this cold woman who was not exactly cold, this rock who was not stone.

Jesus, our elder brother, was begotten in the flesh by the same character that was in the garden of Eden, and who is our Father in Heaven.

We must lose all for Christ in order to gain all for Christ.

I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.

I don't think the people of Chicago should be robbed of their birthright to be perennial losers.

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

We should always pray for help, but we should always listen for inspiration and impression to proceed in ways different from those we may have thought of.

The left has so corrupted everything it's touched. Even its highest ranking intellectual members are loony.

I write on weekends, on vacation, and, really - on deadline and on my floor. Both terrible for the back.