I want to see a more collective style in how our party operates, in politics as a whole.
— Jeremy Corbyn
I'm very proud of the fact that I voted against the Iraq war. And proud that I voted strongly not for students to be saddled with thousands and thousands of pounds worth of debt.
What I remain opposed to is the idea that David Cameron could go around and give up workers' rights, give up environmental protection, give up a whole load of things that are very important.
Inequality is a terrible waste of time, a waste of people's resources.
The idea that somehow or other you can deal with all the problems in the world by banning a particular religious group from entering the U.S.A. is offensive and absurd.
I find if you are in an office, the crisis finds you. If you're not in the office, the crisis finds somebody else.
We are not doing celebrity, personality, abusive politics - we are doing ideas. This is about hope.
It is time we recognised the huge contribution that migration has made to the economic growth of this country.
There is a democratic process in the party, and that can be operated at any time. But am I going to resign? No. Of course not. No. No. I will carry on.
Loyalty is about the party and the movement... if you want a better and more effective party, we've got to open ourselves up much more to our membership and our supporters.
I want a world of peace. I'm not interested in bombs. I'm not interested in wars. I'm interested in peace.
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.
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.
I'm not joining in personal attacks... I don't do personal attacks.
We've got to stand up for what we believe in as a labour movement. And that means the party's membership needs to be even bigger so it becomes a genuinely mass organisation.
I have already said and will continue to say that I won't respond to personal abuse, and I never make any personal abuse, ever, to anybody. I just don't do that kind of politics.
What I find appalling is the intrusive nature towards my extended family.
I'm not somebody with over-weening ambition.
I think we should all be accountable to our parties, but I also think that accountability should be a process of engagement: that MPs do engage with their constituency parties, do engage with their constituents, and MPs do change their minds on things because of local opinion.
Basically, on the question of Europe, I want to see a social Europe, a cohesive Europe, a coherent Europe, not a free market Europe.
You grow your way to prosperity; you don't cut your way to it.
I think there's good in everybody.
NATO expansion and Russian expansion - one leads to the other, and one reflects the other.
I am just an ordinary person trying to do an ordinary job.
Our problem in the 2015 general election was that for all the good stuff that was in the Labour manifesto, we were still going to be freezing public sector wages, cutting council expenditure, laying off civil servants. We were offering 'austerity light' instead of a real alternative.
I think in English history a very interesting character is John Lilburne. Very interesting character because of the way he managed to develop the whole debate about the English civil war into something very different.
Taken slightly historically, the turning point in the E.U. was actually the Single European Act, the Thatcher/Maastricht-era stuff, which was turning the E.U. into very much a market system.
I'm a leader, not a dictator. I want to persuade people rather than threaten or control them.
Diversity in media is something that is intrinsic to a democratic society. We do not want the whole media owned by one person.
There is not going to be a peace process unless there is talks involving Israel, Hezbollah and Hamas, and I think everyone knows that.
We live in a very unequal society.
In my own constituency, the benefit cap has had the effect of social cleansing: of people receiving benefit, but the benefit is capped; therefore, they can't meet the rent levels charged and are forced to move. It's devastating for children, devastating for the family and very bad for the community as a whole.
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.
The Spanish Civil War, Britain was not involved in it. Going back a bit, there was the naval blockade to stop the slave trade in the 19th century; that was morally just. Shame they didn't bother to abolish slavery at the same time.
I've been quite involved in a lot of U.N. operations over the years. I was a U.N. observer at the East Timor referendum in 2000. I've been very involved in that for a long time.
You pay more in wages, get more in in tax, you get people living a higher standard, you get more money. It's a kind of circle.
There is nothing wrong with my heart except for wanting a peaceful world.
I make mistakes like anybody else, I will make mistakes. And you have to reflect on it, and you have to listen to people. That is the key.
It is opposition to economic orthodoxy that leads us into austerity and cuts. But it is also a thirst for something more communal, more participative. That, to me, is what is interesting in this process.
Sure, I've met with people I don't agree with.
Quite simply, I maintained contact with Sinn Fein and believed that there had to be a political, not a military, solution to the situation in Northern Ireland.
I've got lots of stamina; don't worry about that. I cycle every day - it's OK.
Tony Benn and I were very close, very close friends for 30, 40 years. We talked to each other a great deal, and we were great friends. And I was with him shortly before he died, talking about prospects of the world and prospects for peace. And I'm very sad that he's gone.
I've been in Parliament since 1983, and I've been involved in many issues over the time.
If there is 'right to buy' for council tenants and housing association properties, then why shouldn't that apply to all tenants? Some landlords are decent, very caring people, but some of them are truly appalling.
Mum and Dad met campaigning on the Spanish civil war. Both were active peace campaigners. They died in 1986 and '87.
Politically active people felt more and more disenfranchised, particularly during the ultra-New Labour years.
I understand the principles of dissent in parliament.
We can create a new kind of politics: kinder, more respectful, but courageous, too.
