Top 102 Quotes & Sayings by Chuka Umunna - Page 2

I've had a lot of good media and the Obama comparison has definitely been part of the reason for some of that.

Future prosperity will be built on private sector growth.

I honestly do feel like the luckiest man alive. I have a beautiful daughter, an amazing wife and not everyone has that. My close mates always laugh at me because I say I'm blessed, but I don't know what I did to deserve it.

I have multiple identities, never mind ethnically but in other respects... and it's even worse when they try to do it by reference to other people. This stupid term, 'Blairite,' that gets used in the Labour Party as a form of abuse, in spite of the fact this guy won three elections.

If the tax loop holes that allow tax avoidance were shut down, it would go some way to sorting out our finances, would it not?

To be concerned about immigration and the economy is not racist, but I do think there is a virus of racism that runs through Ukip.

I have no truck with this notion that immigrants are to blame for all of the country's problems.

Look, I like my music, and I don't have a conventional background for a politician, but I'm pretty conventional in many senses.

It was a Labour prime minister who appointed the first black male and female cabinet ministers.

Part of the reason young people are getting involved with gangs, leading to the use of guns and knives, is not the lack of stop and search but the individualistic, consumerist society we live in.

We do not just strive for a society in which every person has the opportunity to reach their full potential (all parties lay claim to that); we want to build a society in which whatever talents people have, they are rewarded with a comfortable standard of living when they apply them.

Putting in place the building blocks for the future of our economy is common sense.

Undoubtedly Obama's multi-ethnic heritage is part of his appeal. There is something in his background that we can all relate to and grab hold of.

Labour has an impressive record of delivery for black Britain.

I wasn't born into one of the two main parties, but both my parents had a strong sense of social justice.

Despite Labour's achievements in government, we were too often seen as champions for global capital markets, which worked for bankers but did not seem to be delivering for the rest of Britain.

My father was a rags-to-riches businessman who came over in the Sixties with no money. On my mother's side, I am the grandson of a High Court judge and celebrated intelligence officer, so it's quite an unusual combination.

My dad always made a big thing about having well-cut suits. It's partly a cultural thing, but for him, looking sharp and presenting yourself well was very, very important.

I have a confession to make: I am a Labour parliamentary candidate but like and get on with some of the Conservative persuasion.

The Labour perspective is often very preoccupied with either the super-rich or those who don't have work - but doesn't have nearly enough to say to those who do have work, on incomes that may not mean they get benefits or tax credits, but are not well off people.

My stock answer when people ask 'Are you Britain's Barack Obama?' is 'I'm quite happy being Streatham's Chuka Umunna,' and I really mean that.

Comparing every black male politician on the scene to Obama is a bit lazy - just because I'm from a similar background and profession, it's such an easy comparison to make. It's also quite annoying being viewed through the prism of someone else's personality and identity, rather than your own.

My father, when he arrived in this country found it difficult.

The reason I have been so outspoken on antisemitism is that racism is racism - and my family have been victims of it.

I would like to go back to the private sector at some point.

I don't like being pigeon-holed.

Jeremy Corbyn is a Brexiteer. This guy has always wanted us to leave the E.U.

My dad was this pint-sized Nigerian with an oversized personality. My mother is a tall six foot something Irish-English woman. Us walking down the street was quite an unusual sight, when I was growing up.

My father had hammered into me, you want to look after your family, you want a nice house, and you want to be able to enjoy yourself, and you have to work very hard for those things. Don't think the world is going to come to you.

In 2016, we all thought Remain would hopefully win.

Look, politics can be tough.

I had to grow up very quickly.

Too often, politicians fail to relate what they advocate to the kind of society they want to build, or they dress up policy in rhetoric which belies their actual intention. Meanwhile Joe Public is left wondering what on earth this bunch are all about and how their vision of a good society differs from that of the other lot.

I think the first person to call me 'Britain's Obama' was Martin Bright at the New Statesman. Harriet Harman made the comparison once at a conference; it was very flattering but it made me cringe slightly.

I wasn't one of those people who had some grand plan to become Prime Minister. I'm a normal person. When I was being foolish in my twenties, when I was at university, I wasn't thinking I was going to become an MP.

We have a commitment to making sure that the U.K. remains a member of the European Union.

We are pro-West, and we are not anti-liberal.

My family have shaped my politics more than anything else.

I'm boring, man.

I get quite bemused by the comments made about what I wear because, for African people, how you dress is very important.

Advertising does something important as a sector - culturally and especially economically

Rest of my life is more important to me than politics