Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.
From Tony Blair
My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.
Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.
My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform.
There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.
It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.
Be a doer and not a critic.
The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.
Leaders lead but in the end it's the people who deliver.
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