Sorry, but we live in a democracy and the Government has to be responsive to Parliament.

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?

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.

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.

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.

It takes 5 to 7 years to turn a novice into a case officer capable of working in the capitals of the world.

I want to drink from you're life force.

This book is visceral like how your small intestine is visceral

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Anyone can go online and write anything they want about people they don't even know, and most of the time, that is fueled by hate. The sad part is that people actually believe what they read online.

They like to take all this money from sin, build big universities to study in, sing Amazing Grace all the way to the Swiss banks.

I keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don't, but I still always have a way of telling a story.

The biggest problem with life is that it's just daily.

I'm not superstitious, but I'm a little stitious.

The speed of the fleet is not determined by the fastest vessel; rather it is determined by the slowest one.