Quotes from Jeremy Corbyn

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.

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

Parliament is supposed to be serious. It's not a place for jingoistic cheering.

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

My view is the questions in Parliament should be the questions that people out there want asked.

The Parliamentary Labour Party is a crucial and very important part of the Labour party, but it is not the entirety of the Labour Party.

We're not going back anywhere, we're going forward, we're going forward in democracy, we're going forward in participation, we're going forward with ideas.

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.

A lot of people didn't feel attracted to Labour, so they voted in desperation for other things.

I'm very proud of the fact that I voted against the Iraq war. And proud that I voted strongly not for students to be saddled with thousands and thousands of pounds worth of debt.

Like a majority of the population and a majority of even Tory voters, I want the railways back in public ownership.

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.

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.

Every penny paid to a PFI company is money withdrawn from those waiting for an operation, money removed from the training of clinicians, and money denied for life-saving treatments.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Local authorities face huge housing issues with demands outstripping supply many times over; the only way those in housing need can be housed is in the private sector.

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.

We are now at risk of having a zombie democracy roaming around a one-party state.

Our Jewish friends are no more responsible for the actions of Israel or the Netanyahu government than our Muslim friends are for those of various self-styled Islamic states or organisations.

Sorry, but we live in a democracy and the Government has to be responsive to Parliament.