Jeremy Corbyn

“We've got to stand up for what we believe in as a labour movement. And that means the party's membership needs to be even bigger so it becomes a genuinely mass organisation.”

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

“I have always worked long hours and very hard. It is the way I am. Same as always. Up about seven and get to bed about 12 to 1, something like that.”

“Sure, I've met with people I don't agree with.”

“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.”

“Lopez Obrador invokes the appeal of national unity, the revolution of 1910, and the progressive constitution of 1917.”

“I understand the principles of dissent in parliament.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“There is not going to be a peace process unless there is talks involving Israel, Hezbollah and Hamas, and I think everyone knows that.”

“I haven't had vast amounts of ministerial experience - in fact, none at all. But I do have a lot of experience of people.”

“Every penny paid to a PFI company is money withdrawn from those waiting for an operation, money removed from the training of clinicians, and money denied for life-saving treatments.”

“I'm quite concerned that if I spend time in the office, someone will always find something for you to do. There's always a crisis that needs your urgent attention.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I think in English history a very interesting character is John Lilburne. Very interesting character because of the way he managed to develop the whole debate about the English civil war into something very different.”