“I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into po...” — Tony Blair Quote

“I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.”

“So actually I only got a mobile phone the day after I left being Prime Minister.”

“The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.”

“This idea that once you get into politics... you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error - and that is believing that the only way you can hold progressive views and implement them is in elective office.”

“As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.”

“The real goal of politics has to be getting people to act on what they already know was wrong.”