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.

If the leadership can't win a debate, then we should show true leadership and implement the democratic will of our party.

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

You can't sustain a high level of intense activity with thousands of people forever. It has to be for a specific objective.

Shakespeare wrote about love. I write about love. Shakespeare wrote about gang warfare, family feuds and revenge. I write about all the same things.

My first son Tony was born when I was only eighteen. I was a still a kid; I wasn't ready to be a dad, so he was put up for adoption and went off to live with a family that could care for him.

In many immigrant families, the parents are just talking and talking about the home country until the children are like, 'Oh, don't tell us any more.'

I didn't hesitate to kiss my father in public. And that's how I tried to raise my children. We're physical.