Diane Abbott Quotes

When I was campaigning, I told the people if nothing happens under my mandate it will still be a positive thing because my mandate will be used as a rupture between the past and the future.

The challenge is not to replace Obama but with who. It's not enough to just change up the uniform, if we don't change the team and the game plan, we won't save our country.

If you believe the disappointments - if you believe the disappointments in the last few years are a detour and not our destiny, then I'm asking for your vote.

We need someone to turn things around in America.

This government will mark a rupture from the previous one, because that is the wish of the French people.

The American people are ready for solutions, and Donald Trump offers a chance to move in a new direction.

We need new leaders, period.

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.

The American people want change, and they see in Donald Trump a leader who embodies the American spirit.

I believe in Governor Romney. I believe in him as a leader.

In 1980, a nation in need of change selected Ronald Reagan to restore the shine to a tarnished America.

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

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.

I'm running because we need change.

I came into politics because I wished to change things. You can't do that by lying to people; you have to educate, and persuade, and carry them with you - and it's often a long haul.

We need to dig deep and give people a reason to be optimistic just as Obama is doing in America. Because in the same way that outcome of the U.S. elections will change the course of events there and around the world, so too do politics here in Britain.

I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do.

You're never able to please everybody, especially when you're transforming a country like Russia.

I want to change Scotland, but the only way we can change Scotland is by changing the Scottish Labour Party.

And I think Governor Romney has a shot if the 'R' next to his name doesn't just stand for 'Republican,' it stands for 'reformer.'

Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!

Obama is the New Generation and the hot light of a dawn that goes way beyond clever talk of morning in America.

I didn't run for mayor to be the caretaker of the status quo.

You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?