"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."
"Quite simply, I maintained contact with Sinn Fein and believed that there had to be a political, not a military, solution to the situation in Northern Ireland."
"I'm quite concerned that if I spend time in the office, someone will always find something for you to do. There's always a crisis that needs your urgent attention."
"Lopez Obrador invokes the appeal of national unity, the revolution of 1910, and the progressive constitution of 1917."
"I have already said and will continue to say that I won't respond to personal abuse, and I never make any personal abuse, ever, to anybody. I just don't do that kind of politics."
"What I find appalling is the intrusive nature towards my extended family."
"I understand the principles of dissent in parliament."
"In my own constituency, the benefit cap has had the effect of social cleansing: of people receiving benefit, but the benefit is capped; therefore, they can't meet the rent levels charged and are forced to move. It's devastating for children, devastating for the family and very bad for the community as a whole."
"We've got to stand up for what we believe in as a labour movement. And that means the party's membership needs to be even bigger so it becomes a genuinely mass organisation."
"Politically active people felt more and more disenfranchised, particularly during the ultra-New Labour years."
"We live in a very unequal society."
"I'm not joining in personal attacks... I don't do personal attacks."
"Mum and Dad met campaigning on the Spanish civil war. Both were active peace campaigners. They died in 1986 and '87."
"There is not going to be a peace process unless there is talks involving Israel, Hezbollah and Hamas, and I think everyone knows that."
"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."
"If there is 'right to buy' for council tenants and housing association properties, then why shouldn't that apply to all tenants? Some landlords are decent, very caring people, but some of them are truly appalling."
"Diversity in media is something that is intrinsic to a democratic society. We do not want the whole media owned by one person."
"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've been in Parliament since 1983, and I've been involved in many issues over the time."
"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."
"Tony Benn and I were very close, very close friends for 30, 40 years. We talked to each other a great deal, and we were great friends. And I was with him shortly before he died, talking about prospects of the world and prospects for peace. And I'm very sad that he's gone."
"Taken slightly historically, the turning point in the E.U. was actually the Single European Act, the Thatcher/Maastricht-era stuff, which was turning the E.U. into very much a market system."
"Loyalty is about the party and the movement... if you want a better and more effective party, we've got to open ourselves up much more to our membership and our supporters."
"I've got lots of stamina; don't worry about that. I cycle every day - it's OK."
