Getting elected as MP for the Rhondda in 2001 despite everyone saying I was too “exotic” or “flamboyant”, ie gay.

That my work has given deaf children more confidence in themselves and a sense of ownership of who they are.

I was very proud of doing Falstaff, because it seemed to go well.

Football player of the year 4th XI 2002.

Barack Obama, because he believed he could be president of the United States, and he succeeded. He was kind, and he tried to set a high standard of leadership.

On the Freedom Rides in the year 1961, when I was beaten at the Greyhound bus station in Montgomery, I thought I was going to die. On March 7, 1965, when I was hit in the head with a night stick by a state trooper at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, I thought I was going to die.

There are many battles. There’s so much that needs to be done. We need to protect the environment. Save this little planet. Not just this little piece of real estate we call America, but save the planet.

I don't want to die. I don't think I'm going to die…but we all have to die. Since I do, I hope I live on in the hearts and minds of people.

You must find a way to get in the way, you must find a way to get into trouble — good trouble, necessary trouble.

As a participant in the movement, as I was sitting in, I came to that point where I lost all sense of fear.