David Blunkett Quotes

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

People are sick of the false choice between the established political parties who take voters for granted.

People are sick of the political system and the players in the system - BJP, Congress, Akalis. They want a good alternative and those who can deliver.

Anyone leaving the Congress' camp and joining - or even indirectly praising - the BJP-led NDA coalition immediately stands the risk of losing this Congress-issued certificate of secularism. It is a travesty!

The concept of loyalty to the leader is set firmly in the ethos of the Labour party.

Voters seem to understand what a big waste of time trying to change Washington is.

The lack of fiscal responsibility is one of the main reasons I finally left my old Party.

I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am president the less of a party man I seem to become.

Damn your principles! Stick to your party.

I quit politics because I hated it.

People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way we could change that was by sending a different type of person to Washington.

I may have grown cynical from long service, but this is a tendency I do not like, and I sometimes think I'd rather be a dog and bay at the moon than stay in the Senate another six years and listen to it.

By a Party, With a Party, but for the Country.

Many of you are disillusioned with the performance of this and past governments, and with the unkept promises. But we have to understand that we cannot manage without these reforms.

In former days all appointments to the bureaucracy were made by the political party in power. When that party was defeated, all the bureaucrats in office were immediately thrown out and their places were filled by faithful heelers of the victorious party. It was not a very noble system. It was not conducive to efficient governmental administration…. It did have certain virtues, however. It prevented anyone from becoming a bureaucrat for life and so losing completely the point of view of the man on the street. It also permitted the elected officials to reward their political workers by changing, instead of increasing, the bureaucracy.

Party service does not require intelligent, independent action, and politics today stands for party fealty more than for governmental ethics

However much I have been blamed for not showing more deference to a great party, and for not acting more steadily on party principles, all I have to regret is that I showed so much

The two old parties … fight only for office. Observe how utterly both parties in this respect lack program and new leadership.

What makes this harder is that it is my party that is ruining the country.

People in Israel are sick and tired of the old politics.

There are very good people in the Labour Party who I would like to see in leadership.

I wanted to be mayor, but my party didn't want me. I was perhaps too liberal.

The political parties have lost their loyalties.

There's a high level of frustration with the two-party system out there.

I think people vote Ukip from a frustration with politics, which is legitimate, and which politicians have to listen to.