These are tough times and under this Tory-led government many people in Manchester are suffering and getting left behind. If elected I will use all my energy skills experience and knowledge to stand up for our communities and get things done for the better.

We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible.

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.

The basis the corner-stone of this Government was the perfect equality of the free sovereign and independent States which made it.

I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

Democracy... is a charming form of government full of variety and disorder and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights and governments need to learn from that listen to the movement and respond.

There are more effective ways of tackling environmental problems including global warming proliferation of plastics urban sprawl and the loss of biodiversity than by treaties top-down regulations and other approaches offered by big governments and their dependents.