“Fe wnes i benderfynu mynd i fyd gwleidyddiaeth am i mi gael fy magu yn Nhrelái, ardal lle’r oedd ar y pryd gryn dipyn o amddifadedd. Mae hynny’n dal i fod yn wir am heddiw. Pan oeddwn i’n tyfu i fyny yno, nid oedd neb ar y stad, ar wahân i fy rhieni, wedi bod mewn prifysgol. Eto i gyd, roedd y bobl oedd yn byw ar yr un stad â ni, fel y maen nhw heddiw, mor glyfar ag unrhyw un sy’n eistedd yn yr ystafell yma heddiw. Unioni’r anghyfiawnder hwnnw oedd y sail i’m penderfyniad i ymddiddori mewn gwleidyddiaeth.
“I became involved in politics because I was brought up in Ely, an area where there was, and still is quite a lot of deprivation. When I grew up there literally nobody on the estate except for my parents had gone to university. And yet, the people on my estate were and are as clever as anyone sitting in this room today. It is to correct that injustice that I became interested in politics.