Diane Abbott quotes:

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  • 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.

  • You learn from mistakes.

  • Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.

  • 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.

  • The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.

  • Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.

  • Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.

  • Tackling childhood obesity is key.

  • Abortion is an issue of conscience for the Labour party.

  • My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain.

  • I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.

  • 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.

  • I knew what could happen to my son if he was sent to the wrong school and got in with the wrong crowd.

  • You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.

  • Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have.

  • In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.

  • I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.

  • There is no reason why the US and the UK cannot have close relations.

  • My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.

  • I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't.

  • 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?

  • My family were from Jamaica.

  • I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.

  • In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country.

  • It's very lonely bringing up a child on your own.

  • White people love playing 'divide & rule'. We should not play their game.

  • 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.

  • I want to write a best-selling book.

  • I spend a lot of time visiting local organisations.

  • My father was a manual worker.

  • 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.

  • My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.

  • Because when you watch U.S. television, all the presenters and reporters, they're all out of central casting.

  • I believe every abortion is a tragedy.

  • I want a Labour Party that is more democratic, more open and listens to its members.

  • There are 101 websites out there for debate - this was a blatant last attempt to get someone to stand against Gordon Brown.

  • I'm not thick-skinned at all, and of course I'm hurt by people attacking me as a person.

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