You pay more in wages, get more in in tax, you get people living a higher standard, you get more money. It's a kind of circle.

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.

He smiled. "How kind of you to confirm what I already know. Perhaps next you will introduce me to myself. I hear I am quite popular.

It surprised me that I was already using the past tense. People I knew. As if I didn't know them anymore.

Opening her mouth to take a bite seemed forward. Chewing? Obscene. Mutual mastication was out of the question.

It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

It’s over me like a ton of water, the things I don’t know.

You know, if ever there was a people who should know how to practice brotherhood, it is the American Negro and it is the people of Egypt.

Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist.

Being prepared for a job is a good idea for the short term, but it is not enough for the long term.

It's a fairly accurate portrait of me at eighteen, minus a few quirks like reckless driving and eating binges. It's accurate but it isn't profound.

Through bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.