The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Tony Blair’s response when asked by one of his Parliament members why he believes so much in America: “A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in... And how many want out.
The right to demand the best and refuse the worst and do so not by virtue of your wealth, but your equal status as citizen, thats precisely what the modern Labour Party should stand for.
I didn’t come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.
I want my son to grow up in a place where the people are more powerful than the government and not the other way around.
I had discovered long ago the first lesson of political courage: to think anew. I had then learned the second: to be prepared to lead and to decide. I was now studying the third: how to take the calculated risk. I was going to alienate some people, like it or not. The moment you decide, you divide.
Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it.
We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq.
We in a sense went for the Bernie Sanders model OK? Now we’re also in turmoil as a result of this result.
Society works by putting opportunity and responsibility together.
Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.
You get these insurgent movements of populism, left and right. An insurgent movement of populism took my political party over in the UK for example.
The British are special. The world knows it. In our innermost thoughts we know it. This is the greatest nation on earth.
Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain Britain. So conform to it, or don’t come here.
I don’t think there Is a way politically to beat “Insurgent Movement Of Populism”.
Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.
The first rule in politics is that there are no rules, at least not in the sense of inevitable defeats or inevitable victories. If you have the right policy and the right strategy, you always have a chance of winning. Without them, you can lose no matter how certain the victory seems.
I am a pretty straight sort of guy.
My teachers used to call me a failure.