Riding a bicycle is the summit of human endeavour - an almost neutral environmental effect coupled with the ability to travel substantial distances without disturbing anybody. The bike is the perfect marriage of technology and human energy.
You grow your way to prosperity; you don't cut your way to it.
I want a world of peace. I'm not interested in bombs. I'm not interested in wars. I'm interested in peace.
Inequality is a terrible waste of time, a waste of people's resources.
I'm a leader, not a dictator. I want to persuade people rather than threaten or control them.
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.
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.
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.
Because I've never had any higher education of any sort, I've never held in awe those who have had it or have a sense of superiority over those who don't.
Everybody aspires to an affordable home, a secure job, better living standards, reliable healthcare and a decent pension. My generation took those things for granted, and so should future generations.
Cycling is good for people in all ways: their health, their well-being, and it does no damage to the environment. It can, however, be dangerous, and this has to be addressed.
We can create a new kind of politics: kinder, more respectful, but courageous, too.
I am just an ordinary person trying to do an ordinary job.
I still have the Triumph Palm Beach I was given for Christmas when I was 11. By today's standards, it is heavy and slow, but was my pride and joy at the time.
I'm just a very normal person, living in north London, doing my best for my area and to put forward some serious debate on issues in the party.
We live in a very unequal society.
It is important that politicians defend their ability to act without fear or favour, and it is in the public interest that they hold ministers and public servants to account.
I'm not joining in personal attacks... I don't do personal attacks.
Some colleagues have said they would not be very keen on working with me, but I am sure these things were said in the heat of the moment.
Diversity in media is something that is intrinsic to a democratic society. We do not want the whole media owned by one person.
