54 Quotes by Diane Abbott

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

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

Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have.

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

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

I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.

When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark corners of the room and are bombarded with latest gadgets. Things replace parental standards.

I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.

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