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.

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.

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.

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.

Many times, my intuition wins. I trust my intuition a lot. A lot.

The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time.

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting.

There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.

I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.

As for opinions, if they're not pleasant they'd better be kept to yourself. I learned that early in life and forget it every day.

I've experienced several different healing methodologies over the years - counseling, self-help seminars, and I've read a lot - but none of them will work unless you really want to heal.

I feel that everyone who wants to say anything, do anything, should be able to say anything or do anything, within the limits of not hurting another person.

Outrageous fiscal mendacity is neither historically normal nor bipartisan. It’s a modern Republican thing.

Firing someone who is investigating you is a counterproductive strategy.