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Especially some of the poorest in our society need to have the greatest support because health inequalities are too wide.
There's a vast class - the poor, the underprivileged, the people least likely to vote - who are not represented any more.
We are a humane society, and one which believes that we have to help rehabilitate offenders so they turn away from crime.
Did the Prime Minister have some sort of grudge against you by sending this publicity crazed person into your Department?
War on Iraq runs the risk of turning the Middle East into an inexhaustible recruiting ground for anti- western terrorism.
We support the auto-enrolment but we have our doubts about the way the National Pension Scheme is going to be structured.
I don't want to watch 'Newsnight.' I just don't understand those politicians who genuinely want to watch it for pleasure.
Doing politics in a democracy costs money for campaigning and getting our message across and that's what we intend to do.
We must not ignore the younger electorate in a fight for older swing voters who we can be confident will go to the polls.
The E.U. referendum was promised by a Conservative Prime Minister fearful of losing votes and of mass defections to UKIP.
There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices.
Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to look not only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.
The Labour Party can go into the next election united behind the most radical manifesto on which we have ever campaigned.
I am backing Remain for a very simple reason: it is the best way of protecting jobs, wages and rights for working people.
How is it having more control if there are businesses from China, India, America choosing Germany and France over London?
I have no regret that someone openly identified with terrorist organisations and activities meets his death the same way.
Our manifesto to the British people promised to finish the job of police reform. And that is exactly what I intend to do.
The Transparency Bill is something we should all support - practical steps in promoting an open and accountable democracy.
I believe that our country is a richer, more vibrant society precisely because it is a multi-racial, multi-ethnic society.
The vast majority of young people in Britain are law-abiding citizens making important contributions to their communities.
We have to take real steps to break down the culture of benefit dependency and failure which blights too many urban areas.
You chastise children when they are bad, as my parents did me. I'm not opposed to smacking. It is to be used occasionally.
The real danger to Britain is a foreign policy that is isolationist in Europe and therefore weak in the rest of the world.
It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush.
Margaret Thatcher's government redistributed money from rich to poor. And that's the nature of a modern western democracy.
In short, corruption destroys the 'deal' - the bargain - between the citizen and the state; and it harms the poorest most.
America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring.
Saying you don't want to enter every potential war in the Middle East doesn't make you an isolationist; it makes you wise.
The public wants to know that their political leaders will stay true to the promise made to them that Brexit means Brexit.
On the whole, my disposition is to say yes, unless I've got good reason to say no, and I think that's being in public life.
The Labour party is a lost cause for anybody who is moderate and sensible and believes in that left-of-centre view of life.
We have tended in politics in this country to concentrate on the domestic, on the here and now - the 'what's in it for me'.
We need dynamic and thriving businesses and a skilled and adaptable labour force to produce competitiveness and prosperity.
It is hard to speak the truth about valued national institutions. But when they are not fit for purpose, we must speak out.
There are 101 websites out there for debate - this was a blatant last attempt to get someone to stand against Gordon Brown.
Scepticism and cynicism about politics is so great that one of the best counters to it is what you can do at a local level.
I believed we needed someone who would be able to build a team, lead and unite. I hoped that person would be Boris Johnson.
There are huge challenges ahead for this country but also huge opportunities. We can make this country stronger and fairer.
And broader still became the blaze, and louder still the din, And fast from every village round the horse came spurring in.
There are two completely different Britains. There's London, and there's the rest of Britain. Attitudes are very different.
I can be impatient. I can be a bit short sometimes. You're nearly always shortest with those who are most important to you.
I think in this country [UK] we could do with rather less political correctness and more straight talking across the board.
How is it having more control if there is double the immigration as there would be under an Australian style points system?
Of course I am partisan in my politics, but my partisanship is rational - which, in my book, is not necessarily oxymoronic.
Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had. It is one that we must not squander.
The decision on whether to ban anyone from the U.K. is made by the home secretary on the basis of the evidence at the time.
As politicians we have to make very difficult decisions and one...is when freedom of speech actually insults public safety.
I've always been comfortable working with women and I've had two happy marriages. Draw what conclusions you like from that.
If we're not enthusiastic, we can't get things done. If we're over-enthusiastic, we run into the danger of being fanatical.
In my view, as a country we need to rediscover some of that skepticism about government and revisit that libertarian agenda.