Quotes by Diane Abbott

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.

— Diane Abbott

Wisdom

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 the Commons.

— Diane Abbott

Truth

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

— Diane Abbott

Wisdom

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

— Diane Abbott

Wisdom

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

— Diane Abbott

Wisdom

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

— Diane Abbott

Wisdom

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

— Diane Abbott

Wisdom

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

— Diane Abbott

Wisdom

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.

— Diane Abbott

Wisdom

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

— Diane Abbott

Courage

In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.

— Diane Abbott

Wisdom

Tackling childhood obesity is key.

— Diane Abbott

Wisdom

Abortion is an issue of conscience for the Labour party.

— Diane Abbott

Education

Because when you watch U.S. television, all the presenters and reporters, they're all out of central casting.

— Diane Abbott

Wisdom

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

— Diane Abbott

Wisdom

I want to write a best-selling book.

— Diane Abbott

Wisdom

I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't.

— Diane Abbott

Love

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

— Diane Abbott

Wisdom

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

— Diane Abbott

Wisdom

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

— Diane Abbott

Wisdom

My family were from Jamaica.

— Diane Abbott

Wisdom

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

— Diane Abbott

Wisdom

You learn from mistakes.

— Diane Abbott

Education

I'm not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I'm the only one who's questioned about it.

— Diane Abbott

Wisdom