John Reid Quotes

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

The fundamental question is is the Conservative Party leadable

It is time Britain put its trust back into the Labour Party. I believe I am the candidate that can make this happen precisely because I am not associated with the past.

I am absolutely sure to be the most democratic man to ever become Prime Minister in Italy.

I intend to lead my party, which is the only party that has a serious policy on the No. 1 priority of the people and that is the economy.

Any [political] party without principles is rudderless and passive.

Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.

I did get the opportunity to become prime minister once when TDP had 42 Lok Sabha seats. I had turned it down only in the interest of the then united Andhra Pradesh.

I like Tony Blair.

Mario Ruiz Massieu's resignation places the ball very firmly in Zedillo's court. A key decision he will have to make is whether he is going to govern with, without, or against his own party.

When you are not in power for 20 years and several leaders are in the race, it is tough to put forth one face. The most important things are our policies and principles.

AAP's Punjab Convener is not a rubber stamp.

I've always said I would never say never when it comes to politics.

I don't like compromise. In politics, you have to always choose a compromise, and sometimes, that, I don't like.

I was there when Gordon Brown basically was taking over - so right in the middle of that transition. It was fantastic; I learnt a lot.

She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.

I was democratically elected leader of our party for a new kind of politics by 60% of Labour members and supporters, and I will not betray them by resigning. Today's vote on Brexit has no constitutional legitimacy.

I think the Democratic Party has got to make fundamental choices.

When Blair was elected leader of the Labour Party, he said, "New Labour is a new political party" - that was the phrase he used, and I'm so glad he said it because he set up his own party and I'm not a member of it.

I went back into politics only when it was clear that things weren't going as they should have in my party. I was always arguing, I argued with everyone - with my father, with the leaders I had known since I was a child...and one day, it was in 1955, one of them exclaimed, 'You do nothing but criticize! If you think you can correct things, correct them. Go ahead, why don't you try?' Well, I could never resist a challenge, so I tried.

As one person said to me , Republicans know [Donald] Trump is a stain on their party.

The idea that people are incapable of making up their own minds about people is something that Obama and his party live with every day.

I've been in the Labour Party 50 years and it's 40-odd since I was elected to Parliament

It isn't personal per se to document what the Republican Party leadership is doing and how they're abrogating actual leadership.

I sometimes think that when the prime minister tries to select a weapon it is the boomerang he finds most effective.