There is no reason why the US and the UK cannot have close relations.

I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.

Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.

White people love playing 'divide & rule'. We should not play their game.

Being an MP is a good job, the sort of job all working-class parents want for their children -- clean, indoors and no heavy lifting. What could be nicer?

Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have.

I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.

I'm not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I'm the only one who's questioned about it.

My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.

When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark corners of the room and are bombarded with latest gadgets. Things replace parental standards.

It is time Britain put its trust back into the Labour Party. I believe I am the candidate that can make this happen precisely because I am not associated with the past.

We will never achieve freedom - not until the very end - but the fight can be so beautiful.

Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.

Since the individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining, the average man must take to daydreaming.

If there is no way out, the best course of action is to find a way further in.

The tongue, the ambassador of the heart.

Meditate on the Word in the Word.

When a person puts his best foot forward and gets it stepped on, that's life.

The Democrat Party has been reduced to the point it's not a national party anymore.

I want to think that there are better ways of obviating murder than to resort to capital punishment, but I realise that this may be wishful thinking on my part.

How can I be a gangster, if I worked for the KGB? It is absolutely ridiculous.