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"The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom."
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"I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way."

"You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time."
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"The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics."

"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."

"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."

"We began as restless and radical. Remember the spirit of 1997, but by the end of our time in office we had lost our way."

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

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

"Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change."

"We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice."

"Yes, look, social class is definitely an issue in Britain, it is definitely an issue and I think that most people across the country would sympathise with the idea that there are lots of people with talent and ability all across this country who want to make more of themselves and part of the responsibility of government is to make that happen."

"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."
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