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Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.
I didn’t come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.
In government you carry each hope each disillusion. And in politics it’s always about the next challenge.
You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that’s healthy and indeed even creative. But it’s where – it’s really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.
The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind.
We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.
It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it’s an irresponsible government that fails to choose.
The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.
Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny democracy, not dictatorship the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.