The Labour Party is the sister Party for the Democrats and their progressive views are the ones that we are most aligned with.

I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader.

I'm sure nobody wants to know this, but my husband does all the cleaning - rather too much cleaning. It is too clean, the house!

I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have men-only leadership.

I am in the Labour Party because I am a feminist. I am in the Labour Party because I believe in equality.

I am a very big admirer of Hillary 's and I am an admirer of Obama as well.

Not all civil servants admire strong political leadership. But if you want to change things for the better you need strong political leadership.

For many young people mobility has turned into a bus down to the job centre.

There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality child care.

I'm afraid you gave up the right to pontificate on social mobility when you abolished educational maintenance allowance [EMA], trebled tuition fees and betrayed a generation of young people.

Now, many of us in the Labour Party are conservationists - and we all love the red squirrel. But there is one ginger rodent which we never want to see again - Danny Alexander.

Society is indeed a contract ... it becomes a participant not only between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

It started long before this, when stars were mere particles in swirling clouds of dust. And every event since has conspired to bring us together.

I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.

What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.

The secret of directing is working with really good people.

Once I was doing a sponsored walk. In the end I managed to raise so much money, I could afford a taxi.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Cloning interferon was not something I wanted to get into.

Do you know that every day, 10 people in Afghanistan are injured by landmines? It will continue for the next 50 years, because the country has the largest number of landmines in the world.

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity.