We can create a new kind of politics: kinder, more respectful, but courageous, too.

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.

Receiving is good but giving is much better. Nevertheless, sharing is the best.

Learn to master your thoughts and watch closely what you deposit into your spirit. Speak over your life. Living in peace has transformative power.

It goes so fast, he thought, they don't tell you that, how fast it goes...

It's easier to limit yourself, but if you do, you will never reach your true potential.

I don't mind a crowd's not laughing; it's the groans that slow down the show.

I think individual people are interesting, not really groups of people.

Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights.

Comedians are a much rarer and far more valuable commodity than all the gold and precious stones in the world.

God knows I'm a workaholic.

Chastity is now treated as a sexual problem.