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.

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.

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.

So long as the UK continues to maintain its own identity, it is my belief that the US and the UK should maintain close relations.

You are to me, what wind is to dry leaves.The reason for me to fall, the reason for me to fly.

Eagles fly alone, not because they are proud, but because they are not afraid of soaring above the clouds.

The first kiss plummeted him down a hole and popped him out into a world he thought he could get along in—as if he’d been pulling hard the wrong way and was now turned around headed downstream.

In my youth, I was always one for the dramatic entrance. Now, in keeping with my character, I gravitate more toward the subtle and refined. Okay, with the occasional feathered serpent thrown in.

If keeping your word costs you the one thing you love the most, then what was it even worth keeping in the first place?

A change of style is a change of meaning.

Only thing on right now, like a night light.

I started my political life in the Resistance. It was there that I had my first responsibility.

All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call.

I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.