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"The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics."
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"...vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of '76 now look to a single and splendid government of an Aristocracy, founded on banking institutions and monied in corporations under the guise and cloak of their favored branches of manufactures commerce and navigation, riding and ruling over the plundered ploughman and beggared yeomanry."

"I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that 'issue' I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity."

"The biggest enemy of western people is not war or terrorism, it is their own governments lack of regulation of public health and safety."

"Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button."

"Good riddance to the blatantly corrupt Democratic Party!"

"You can become a politician and improve the institutions of power in your country."

"The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike."
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"I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country."

"It's really important to say this. Often the faith schools were founded before the state provided education. I want good education in this country so I'm not going to slag off faith schools. I think that it's important that people of different backgrounds and different faiths go to school together and many faith schools do that."

"And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so."

"The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom."

"Let the message go out - a new generation has taken charge of Labour which is optimistic about our country, optimistic about our world, optimistic about the power of politics. We are optimistic and together we will change Britain."

"The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view."

"My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold."

"I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism."

"Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people."

"Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that."
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