Riding a bicycle is the summit of human endeavour - an almost neutral environmental effect coupled with the ability to travel substantial distances without disturbing anybody. The bike is the perfect marriage of technology and human energy.

You grow your way to prosperity; you don't cut your way to it.

I want a world of peace. I'm not interested in bombs. I'm not interested in wars. I'm interested in peace.

I'm a leader, not a dictator. I want to persuade people rather than threaten or control them.

I think NATO is a Cold War product. I think NATO historically should have shut up shop in 1990 along with the Warsaw Pact; unfortunately, it didn't.

Inequality is a terrible waste of time, a waste of people's resources.

I'm just a very normal person, living in north London, doing my best for my area and to put forward some serious debate on issues in the party.

We can create a new kind of politics: kinder, more respectful, but courageous, too.

Cycling is good for people in all ways: their health, their well-being, and it does no damage to the environment. It can, however, be dangerous, and this has to be addressed.

There is a self interest in voting for a society where there is health care for all, where there's a mental health service for all, where there is education service for all.

Everybody aspires to an affordable home, a secure job, better living standards, reliable healthcare and a decent pension. My generation took those things for granted, and so should future generations.

Because I've never had any higher education of any sort, I've never held in awe those who have had it or have a sense of superiority over those who don't.

We are all in the Labour party because we want the Labour party to be a vehicle for social change. There is a thirst for debate in the party, and all those who have joined haven't joined without a purpose.

We are not doing celebrity, personality, abusive politics - we are doing ideas. This is about hope.

There is nothing wrong with my heart except for wanting a peaceful world.

I find if you are in an office, the crisis finds you. If you're not in the office, the crisis finds somebody else.

We live in a very unequal society.

I'm not joining in personal attacks... I don't do personal attacks.

Diversity in media is something that is intrinsic to a democratic society. We do not want the whole media owned by one person.

I have dealt with a pretty interesting mix of young people, many of whom have never been involved in any form of politics at any level who are interested in alternatives to austerity and debt, and older people who left the Labour party, mainly over Iraq, who are coming back in.

A more productive economy in the long term will bring us higher tax revenues, but that requires long-term investment in infrastructure and the skills necessary to grow a balanced economy.

I think we should talk about what the objectives of the party are, whether that's restoring the Clause Four as it was originally written or it's a different one, but I think we shouldn't shy away from public participation, public investment in industry, and public control of the railways.

After only two or three weeks in office, we discovered we had a backlog of 100,000 emails sent to me. We had a backlog of a thousand invitations to speak at places all over the country - and all over the world, for that matter.

I still have the Triumph Palm Beach I was given for Christmas when I was 11. By today's standards, it is heavy and slow, but was my pride and joy at the time.

You pay more in wages, get more in in tax, you get people living a higher standard, you get more money. It's a kind of circle.

Some colleagues have said they would not be very keen on working with me, but I am sure these things were said in the heat of the moment.

For the absolute avoidance of doubt, my leadership will be about unity, drawing on all the talents - with women representing half of the shadow cabinet - and working together at every level of the party.

Mexico is becoming the northern part of Latin America, not the U.S.A.'s southern outpost.

Loyalty is about the party and the movement... if you want a better and more effective party, we've got to open ourselves up much more to our membership and our supporters.

Our problem in the 2015 general election was that for all the good stuff that was in the Labour manifesto, we were still going to be freezing public sector wages, cutting council expenditure, laying off civil servants. We were offering 'austerity light' instead of a real alternative.

Obsession with the market seem to prevent ministers looking at the huge problem and all its ramifications in health, education and employment that come from the housing insecurity that too many face.

Tony Benn and I were very close, very close friends for 30, 40 years. We talked to each other a great deal, and we were great friends. And I was with him shortly before he died, talking about prospects of the world and prospects for peace. And I'm very sad that he's gone.

I have always had a very busy life. The difference is that a lot more people are helping advise me what to do, and a lot more people are observing what I do. But in terms of time and working schedule, it is not that different from my normal working week.

I am just an ordinary person trying to do an ordinary job.

I've got lots of stamina; don't worry about that. I cycle every day - it's OK.

If there is 'right to buy' for council tenants and housing association properties, then why shouldn't that apply to all tenants? Some landlords are decent, very caring people, but some of them are truly appalling.

It is opposition to economic orthodoxy that leads us into austerity and cuts. But it is also a thirst for something more communal, more participative. That, to me, is what is interesting in this process.

It is important that politicians defend their ability to act without fear or favour, and it is in the public interest that they hold ministers and public servants to account.

Every penny paid to a PFI company is money withdrawn from those waiting for an operation, money removed from the training of clinicians, and money denied for life-saving treatments.

We oppose the benefit cap. We oppose social cleansing. We will bring the welfare bill down by controlling rents and boosting wages, not by impoverishing families and socially cleansing our communities.

I think we should all be accountable to our parties, but I also think that accountability should be a process of engagement: that MPs do engage with their constituency parties, do engage with their constituents, and MPs do change their minds on things because of local opinion.

To give everyone a house and garden is very difficult in urban areas.

I've been in Parliament since 1983, and I've been involved in many issues over the time.

We are one of the richest countries in the world, and there is absolutely no reason why anyone should have to live in poverty.

I've been proud to be the chair of the Stop the War coalition, proud to be associated with the Stop the War coalition.

I have already said and will continue to say that I won't respond to personal abuse, and I never make any personal abuse, ever, to anybody. I just don't do that kind of politics.

I want everyone to put their views forward, every union branch, every party branch, so we develop organically the strengths we all have, the imagination we all have.

We are developing a media policy which would be about breaking up single ownership of too many sources of information so that we have a multiplicity of sources.

The Spanish Civil War, Britain was not involved in it. Going back a bit, there was the naval blockade to stop the slave trade in the 19th century; that was morally just. Shame they didn't bother to abolish slavery at the same time.

It is the right of a democratically elected parliament to act in defence of our traditional liberties, and everything should be done to keep it that way.