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I'm not thick-skinned at all, and of course I'm hurt by people attacking me as a person.

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My father was a manual worker.

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You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.

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I spend a lot of time visiting local organisations.

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I knew what could happen to my son if he was sent to the wrong school and got in with the wrong crowd.

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In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country.

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My family were from Jamaica.

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It's very lonely bringing up a child on your own.

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I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.

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My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.

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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.

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Tackling childhood obesity is key.

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Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.

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You learn from mistakes.

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Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.

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War is the science of destruction.

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Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.

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'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'

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I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of disputation rather than the trophies of war.

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By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth.

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