Diane Abbott Quotes

I spend a lot of time visiting local organisations.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I want to write a best-selling book.

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

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

Abortion is an issue of conscience for the Labour party.

My family were from Jamaica.

You learn from mistakes.

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

I believe every abortion is a tragedy.

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.

Tackling childhood obesity is key.

My father was a manual worker.