Disable ads!

30 quotes by Diane Abbott

Abbott's voice Sorry, your browser either has JavaScript disabled or does not have any supported player. You can download the clip or download a player to play the clip in your browser. from the BBC programme Desert Island Discs, 18 May 2008 Problems playing this file? See media help. Diane Julie Abbott (born 27 September 1953) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hackney North and Stoke Newington...
Read full biography of Diane Abbott →

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

0

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... →

0

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

0

The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through... →

0

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

0

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

0

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

0

Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.

0

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... →

0

I want to write a best-selling book.

0

Tackling childhood obesity is key.

0

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

1

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

0
Add a quote!
Background photo by Giuliana