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.

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?

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.

My wife is Mexican and my constituency is very, very multicultural.

The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.

Celebrate every relationship you've ever had. For better or worse, your relationships are your best teachers.

One may gain attention by wearing a fools cap. But he would ruin his selling prospects

I taught high school students Spanish.

The one cool thing with getting older is that you can actively choose to just be an eccentric.

There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow wouldn't fall, I started to consider retiring.

Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?

The Universe has a plan to make sure we don't ever stop learning, not only in our minds, but also in our hearts.

But I wasn't sure. I wasn't sure at all. How did I know that someday―at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere―the bell jar, with its stifling distortions, wouldn't descend again?

You visualize yourself as the person you want to be. You strive to make the ideal in your mind become a reality on the canvas of Time.