Diane Abbott famous quotes

03-28-2025

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

#Christmas #Dog #Morbid
Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have.
-- Diane Abbott

#Outsiders #Insight
Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.
-- Diane Abbott

#Missing #Debate #Mental Health
My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.
-- Diane Abbott

#Mother #Records #Unbearable
I'm not thick-skinned at all, and of course I'm hurt by people attacking me as a person.
-- Diane Abbott

#Hurt #People #Attacking
My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.
-- Diane Abbott

#Cutting #Sugar #Owners
I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't.
-- Diane Abbott

#Wanted
It's very lonely bringing up a child on your own.
-- Diane Abbott

#Lonely #Children
You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.
-- Diane Abbott

#Self #Sound #Hypocritical
Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.
-- Diane Abbott

#Looks #Village #London
In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.
-- Diane Abbott

#People #Despise #Values
You learn from mistakes.
-- Diane Abbott

#Mistake #Learning From Mistakes
I want to write a best-selling book.
-- Diane Abbott

#Book #Writing #Want
My family were from Jamaica.
-- Diane Abbott

#Jamaica #My Family
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

#Country #Gun #Cities
My father was a manual worker.
-- Diane Abbott

#Father #Workers
Abortion is an issue of conscience for the Labour party.
-- Diane Abbott

#Party #Issues #Abortion
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

#Children #Dark #Gadgets
I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.
-- Diane Abbott

#Children #Pain #Thinking
Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.
-- Diane Abbott

#Struggle #Junk #Information
Because when you watch U.S. television, all the presenters and reporters, they're all out of central casting.
-- Diane Abbott

#Watches #Television #Casting
I spend a lot of time visiting local organisations.
-- Diane Abbott

#Visiting #Organisation
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

#Children #School #Mps
Tackling childhood obesity is key.
-- Diane Abbott

#Keys #Childhood #Obesity
Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.
-- Diane Abbott

#Gun #Issues #Causes
There are 101 websites out there for debate - this was a blatant last attempt to get someone to stand against Gordon Brown.
-- Diane Abbott

#Lasts #Debate #Brown
I believe every abortion is a tragedy.
-- Diane Abbott

#Believe #Abortion #Tragedy
I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.
-- Diane Abbott

#Children #Wall #West
Being an MP is a good job, the sort of job all working-class parents want for their children -- clean, indoors and no heavy lifting. What could be nicer?
-- Diane Abbott

#Jobs #Children #Mps

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