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You learn from mistakes.
Diane Abbott / British Politician
Learning From Mistakes
Mistake
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My family were from Jamaica.
Diane Abbott / British Politician
Jamaica
My Family
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My father was a manual worker.
Diane Abbott / British Politician
Father
Manuals
Workers
Worker
Manual
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Tackling childhood obesity is key.
Diane Abbott / British Politician
Childhood
Keys
Obesity
Tackling
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I want to write a best-selling book.
Diane Abbott / British Politician
Book
Want
Writing
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I believe every abortion is a tragedy.
Diane Abbott / British Politician
Abortion
Believe
Tragedy
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I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't.
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It's very lonely bringing up a child on your own.
Diane Abbott / British Politician
Children
Lonely
Bringing
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I spend a lot of time visiting local organisations.
Diane Abbott / British Politician
Locals
Organisation
Visiting
Local
Organisations
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Abortion is an issue of conscience for the Labour party.
Diane Abbott / British Politician
Abortion
Conscience
Issues
Labour
Labour Party
Party
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Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have.
Diane Abbott / British Politician
Insiders
Insight
Outsiders
Quite
Often
Insider
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My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.
Diane Abbott / British Politician
Hated
Mother
Records
Unbearable
Liked
Jim
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I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.
Diane Abbott / British Politician
Christmas
Smile
Dog
Morbid
Postman
Developed
Dogs
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In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.
Diane Abbott / British Politician
Despise
People
Values
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There is no reason why the US and the UK cannot have close relations.
Diane Abbott / British Politician
Reason
Reason Why
Relation
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Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.
Diane Abbott / British Politician
Information
Junk
Junk Food
Struggle
Struggling
Tide
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White people love playing 'divide & rule'. We should not play their game.
Diane Abbott / British Politician
Games
Play
White
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I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.
Diane Abbott / British Politician
Children
Indian
Mum
Wall
West
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I want a Labour Party that is more democratic, more open and listens to its members.
Diane Abbott / British Politician
Members
Party
Want
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In Parliament we debate on and we decide the laws that are going to govern the country.
Diane Abbott / British Politician
Debate
Parliament
Govern
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I'm not thick-skinned at all, and of course I'm hurt by people attacking me as a person.
Diane Abbott / British Politician
Attacking
Hurt
People
Me People Person
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I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.
Diane Abbott / British Politician
Children
Doing The Right Thing
Pain
Right Thing
Thinking
The Right Thing
Your Child
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You can't defend the indefensible. Anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.
Diane Abbott / British Politician
Hypocritical
Self
Sound
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You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.
Diane Abbott / British Politician
Hypocritical
Self Serving
Anything
Defend
Say
Indefensible
Sounds
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Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.
Diane Abbott / British Politician
Health
Critical
Debate
Mental Health
Missing
Public Health
Wellbeing
Public
Often
Debates
Mental
Though
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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 / British Politician
Sent
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Because when you watch US television, all the presenters and reporters, they're all out of central casting.
Diane Abbott / British Politician
Casting
Television
Watches
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Because when you watch U.S. television, all the presenters and reporters, they're all out of central casting.
Diane Abbott / British Politician
Casting
Reporters
Television
Central
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Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.
Diane Abbott / British Politician
London
Looks
Village
Westminster
Finally
Intelligentsia
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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 / British Politician
Children
Labour
Mps
Public School
School
Questioned
Sent
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My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.
Diane Abbott / British Politician
Cutting
Owners
Sugar
Background
Cane
Cut
Plantation
Product
Refused
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There are 101 websites out there for debate - this was a blatant last attempt to get someone to stand against Gordon Brown.
Diane Abbott / British Politician
Brown
Debate
Lasts
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So long as the UK continues to maintain its own identity, it is my belief that the US and the UK should maintain close relations.
Diane Abbott / British Politician
Belief
Identity
Long
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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 / British Politician
Jobs
Children
Mps
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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 / British Politician
Difficulty
Honest Truth
Propose
Truth Is
Commons
Massacre
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It is time Britain put its trust back into the Labour Party. I believe I am the candidate that can make this happen precisely because I am not associated with the past.
Diane Abbott / British Politician
Believe
Party
Past
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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 / British Politician
Causes
Crime
Distress
Factors
Gun
Isolated
Issues
Problem
Range
Social
Wide
Cause
Cultural
Deeply
Entrenched
Major
Therefore
Throughout
Uk
Wide Range
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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 / British Politician
Bombarded
Bombarded By
Children
Corners
Dark
Fast Food
Gadgets
Parental
Standards
Surf
All Day
Dietary
Fast
Latest
Room
Replace
Staple
Treat
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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 / British Politician
Britain
Cities
Confined
Country
Crime
Gun
Inner City
Levels
London
Spread
Communities
Highest Levels
Inner
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Let's talk about the real issues of crime which people are worried about. What people are worried about is the rise in violent crime. We believe that more community policemen and women are part of the answer to this.
Diane Abbott / British Politician
Believe
People
Real
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