Diane Abbott Quotes

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

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

Health, Often, Public

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

Often, Quite, Insight

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

Food, Against, Struggling

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

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

Hurt, Person, Attacking

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

Food, Children, Dark

Abortion is an issue of conscience for the Labour party.
Diane Abbott

Conscience, Party, Issue

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

Television, Watch, Casting

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

Sense, London, Finally

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

Fear, Problem, Gun

I believe every abortion is a tragedy.
Diane Abbott

Tragedy, Abortion

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

School, Happen, Son

I spend a lot of time visiting local organisations.
Diane Abbott

Time, Spend, Local

I want to write a best-selling book.
Diane Abbott

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

Marriage, Work, Wanted

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

Christmas, Fear, Dogs

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

Children, West, Wall

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

School, Child, Public

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

Country, Decide, Laws

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

Politics, Values, Despise

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

Lonely, Child, Bringing

My family were from Jamaica.
Diane Abbott

Family, Jamaica

My father was a manual worker.
Diane Abbott

Father, Worker, Manual

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

Cut, Background, Sugar

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Politician

Born: September 27, 1953

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