We are now at risk of having a zombie democracy roaming around a one-party state.

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.

When your vision is clear for your life, goals, and dreams, the confidence and assurance gained bear fruit to joy and peace.

Some people need significance more than they need another person. Change will only happen in a relationship when you realize it is not the person, but the "emotion" you desire.

You should love yourself to an extent where you can't let anyone take advantage of you, no matter who they are.

My dad once told me that his biggest challenge after returning from Vietnam had been coming to terms with his own callousness. He’d made a deal with the war and traded his humanity for a ticket home.

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.

I have discovered that there are two types of command interfaces in the world of computing: good interfaces and user interfaces.

On my first days here I did not start work immediately but, as planned, I took it easy for a few days - flicked through books, studied Japanese art a little.

I like to tell students, 'I didn't burst on to the literary scene.' I'm never good at things at the beginning. I was terrible at the start. I need to work and work.

If the writer does not cry, the reader does not cry.

I feel that as the world becomes more and more multicultural, it's a good tool to be able to speak another language.