Improving the quality of life for people of this country is perhaps the most important duty of Government

It's great to be back on terra cotta

Down in the south, it's how we find the brownfield sites without taking too much land take to meet the tremendous demand for housing, and that's what I've done.

The Green Belt is a Labour achievement - and we mean to build on it.

Because of the security reasons for one thing and, second, my wife doesn't like to have her hair blown about. Have you got another silly question?

My roots, my background and the way I act is working class, but it would be hypsocritical to say I'm anything else than middle class now.

I don't get a fair whack, I don't pursue vendettas or punch people on the nose.

We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent.

What we are beginning to witness is a whole new set of rules for economics, based on rationing resources.

It's moving in the right direction. It was in decline under the previous administration.

If you look at Newcastle or Gateshead, even over twenty years, even with the previous administration, it has moved quite remarkably in transforming itself.

The wound you refuse to dress is one that will never heal. You gush lifeblood and never even know why. It will make you weak at a critical moment when you need to be strong.

I second that. This is all so creepy. I feel like we are in some sort of strange movie, forget an episode of Buffy. We have passed into official horror movie territory.”-Nessa and Cora

Respect those who respects you, kick asses who don't.

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.

Life, unfortunately, doesnʹt seem to care what we want. Act now while you can actually stop it from being a disaster.

I never got a job I didn't create for myself.

I think the hill one has to trudge in order to understand a man's baggage is more of a trek than I'd like to take right now.

All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.

The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.

If you don't like trading, gambling and betting, then you don't like living.