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I am a public library
Making mistakes is how you learn.
My filing system is messy but orderly.
The Tory party is the enemy of democracy.
All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
We live in a country of grotesque inequalities.
I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner
The truth is that goodness is hardwired in humanity.
On many issues, Jeremy Corbyn and I are in agreement.
She believes in something. It is an old-fashioned idea
Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.
Actions speak louder than Climate Emergency declarations.
The way a government treats refugees is very instructive.
I've made every mistake - but mistakes are how you learn.
I have had the advantage of a radical Christian upbringing
I come from a very conventional and non-political background.
The Internet is only the street corner meeting on a big scale
I'm a great believer in needing things that give us some hope.
An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.
A public, unified and integrated railway - hardly controversial.
Some of the jam we thought was for tomorrow, we've already eaten
Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution
Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.
I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.
We need to block dirty diesels getting public money - no question there.
Petra Kelly is my inspiration, one of the founders of the German Greens.
It is tempting to deny, but if you deny you confirm what you won't deny.
We cannot afford to burn the vast majority of known fossil fuel reserves.
The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
Undoubtedly the war with Iraq was a tragedy. I think it was also a crime.
When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia.
An MP is the only job where you have 70,000 employers, and only one employee.
If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.
Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself.
Middle class Labour leaders are recaptured by the establishment when they die.
The point about Roosevelt's New Deal was that it was visionary - for the 1930s.
If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.
Sometimes it takes a sudden change to make you realise just how bad things were.
I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.
The thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much.
In the end, the tragedy of Harold Wilson was that you couldn't believe a word he said
I do not share the general view that market forces are the basis of personal liberty.
The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.
My constituents are my employers - if I let them down I should be accountable to them.
My parents are not people who would want to rock the boat. They wouldn't break the law.
I've always been a bit ambitious, but I do think the Green Party is the real opposition.
Renewable energy is not unaffordable as the fossil fuel giants would like us to believe.
I think very often the boat-rockers turn out to be the people who are building the craft
I'm a democrat - I don't support Bush, I don't support Blair, I don't support Bin Laden.
It's going to take everyone to rebuild a fairer, more sustainable, more beautiful Britain.