We are not doing celebrity, personality, abusive politics - we are doing ideas. This is about hope.

We are all in the Labour party because we want the Labour party to be a vehicle for social change. There is a thirst for debate in the party, and all those who have joined haven't joined without a purpose.

Because I've never had any higher education of any sort, I've never held in awe those who have had it or have a sense of superiority over those who don't.

Everybody aspires to an affordable home, a secure job, better living standards, reliable healthcare and a decent pension. My generation took those things for granted, and so should future generations.

There is a self interest in voting for a society where there is health care for all, where there's a mental health service for all, where there is education service for all.

Cycling is good for people in all ways: their health, their well-being, and it does no damage to the environment. It can, however, be dangerous, and this has to be addressed.

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

I'm just a very normal person, living in north London, doing my best for my area and to put forward some serious debate on issues in the party.

Inequality is a terrible waste of time, a waste of people's resources.

I think NATO is a Cold War product. I think NATO historically should have shut up shop in 1990 along with the Warsaw Pact; unfortunately, it didn't.

I'm a leader, not a dictator. I want to persuade people rather than threaten or control them.

I want a world of peace. I'm not interested in bombs. I'm not interested in wars. I'm interested in peace.

You grow your way to prosperity; you don't cut your way to it.

Riding a bicycle is the summit of human endeavour - an almost neutral environmental effect coupled with the ability to travel substantial distances without disturbing anybody. The bike is the perfect marriage of technology and human energy.

The United Sates has much to offer the third world war.

For too long, too many people dependent on Social Security have been cruelly frightened by individuals seeking political gain through demagoguery and outright falsehood, and this must stop.

Professional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how to be political.

I'll be like Scarlett O'Hara-I'll think about it tomorrow.

This administration is totally colorblind.

I don't have too much time for fiction.

I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service.

There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around.

You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.