Top 30 Quotes by Diane Abbott

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

My father was a manual worker.

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

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

I want to write a best-selling book.

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

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

My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.

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

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