Trade unions are a force for good - a force for a more equal society.

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.

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.

The only thing worse than unrealized hope is no hope.

Are you going? What shall you wear?""I shall go in what I am standing in, " said Mak Genggang. "A witch is always appropriate whatever her attire.

I count it an honor to play with some guys that I've watched play on television, and may be in the Hall of Fame some day.

The real difference between relationship politics and transactional politics is loyalty. [Barack] Obama doesn't seem to expect it.

When we learn to accept difficult circumstances patiently, the real problem disappears.

It seemed like the best weapons in my life had always been the most innocuous: empty plastic bins, a blank CD, an unmarked syringe, my smile in a dark room.

To strip yourself from a lot of the things around you that make you comfortable is a really challenging thing that most of us don't do or don't get a chance to do.

Basic beauty lies in the way a woman walks; it is health and an attitude to life.

Your negative actions will always speak over top of your kind words and only fools listen where the wise watch.

Our wills and fates do so contrary run, That our devices still are overthrown; Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.