I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.

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.

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.

Integrity must become a personal goal of a growing majority in America if we want to be a major world influence.

Winners see the dream and develop plans while the rest see the obstacles and develop justifications.

The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.

Thank god he wasn't a writer, or he'd have nothing to write about.

We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.

I try and make all my songs sound different from each other while doing it in a way that's still me. It's a tricky thing to do.

The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical.

Think against your feelings; argue yourself out of the gloom they have spread; look up from your problems to the God of the gospel.

The difference between a professional person and a technician is that a technician knows everthing about his job except its ultimate purpose and his place in the scheme of things.

In maiden meditation, fancy free.