Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British politician Diane Abbott.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Diane Julie Abbott is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987. A socialist member of the Labour Party, she served in Jeremy Corbyn’s Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Home Secretary from 2016 to 2020. Abbott is the first black woman elected to Parliament, and the longest-serving black MP in the House of Commons.
Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.
I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.
Because when you watch U.S. television, all the presenters and reporters, they're all out of central casting.
Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.
I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.
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.
In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country.
I'm not thick-skinned at all, and of course I'm hurt by people attacking me as a person.
I spend a lot of time visiting local organisations.
Tackling childhood obesity is key.
Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.
I want to write a best-selling book.
I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.
My family were from Jamaica.
My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.
In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.
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.
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.
Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have.
It's very lonely bringing up a child on your own.
I believe every abortion is a tragedy.
I knew what could happen to my son if he was sent to the wrong school and got in with the wrong crowd.
I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't.
You learn from mistakes.
You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.
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.
Abortion is an issue of conscience for the Labour party.
My father was a manual worker.
My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.
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.
There is no reason why the US and the UK cannot have close relations.
You can't defend the indefensible. Anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.
There are 101 websites out there for debate - this was a blatant last attempt to get someone to stand against Gordon Brown.
White people love playing 'divide & rule'. We should not play their game.
Because when you watch US television, all the presenters and reporters, they're all out of central casting.
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.
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?
I want a Labour Party that is more democratic, more open and listens to its members.
Let's talk about the real issues of crime which people are worried about. What people are worried about is the rise in violent crime. We believe that more community policemen and women are part of the answer to this.