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.

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

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.

If you have the power to think, you have the power to change your world.

So one of my responsibilities, as a white, cis-gendered woman, is to learn how to be a traitor to the 'joys' of patriarchal culture that I experience, however unconsciously.

The speech of God’s beautiful woman is a fountain of life to those around her.

Learn to always celebrate the positive things in your life, and never hesitate to leave your negative experiences behind.

Broken pencils still write beautiful songs.

In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.

You are in a prison with no bars. I worry about you.

There is a lot of people just shaking their heads and wondering, what was really behind this meeting [of Donald Trump and Enrique Pena] as far as from the president of Mexico.

Words can bruise and break hearts, and minds as well. There are no black and blue marks, no broken bones to put in plaster casts, and therefore no prison bars for the offender.

There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.