David Cunliffe Quotes

We've got to stand up for what we believe in as a labour movement. And that means the party's membership needs to be even bigger so it becomes a genuinely mass organisation.

The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.

The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists.

A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action.

We are a grassroots party. We always have been. That's been the strength of the GOP.

Crucially, I'd like to thank Labour party members up and down the country for sticking with us. For their active citizenship, their willingness to engage in our democracy, and for being there at the cutting edge of making our democracy work.

You won't catch Liberal Democrats describing trade unionists as wreckers.

I'm in agreement with David Miliband when he says our generation of Labour politicians are not willing to hand over the direction of the country without a serious electoral fight.

The real test of party strength is down close to the grass roots.

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

I want a credible, strong Labour Party.

Jeremy Corbyn became the leader of the Labour party, and suddenly there was a reason to get involved.

Part of my mission, if I have that opportunity as leader, is to take Sinn Fein on.

If you're going to be a fighter, and you're going to fight for the future of this country and lead the Democratic Party, then you can't be ducking fights.

I spent 20 years working for the trade union movement before becoming a Labour MP. I'm proud to have done both jobs.

Corbyn has reignited Labour.

Leaders play an important role, but it is the Labour party's supporters and potential supporters who should take the lead in discussing and determining the sense of purpose and direction of the party if we are to return to being a social movement aiming to transform our society.

At various times in the next 20 or 30 years I think it reasonable to anticipate that I will be among the leadershp of the Labour Party, but as far as being leader, I can't see it happening, and I'm not particularly keen on it happening.

I would do whatever I could to make Jeremy Corbyn more electable, but you've got to give me something to work with, mate.

When Corbyn was elected, I found there was a lot to welcome there.

Many have observed that Elizabeth Edwards could be a political figure in her own right. She has never had an interest in that.

It may sound corny in a cynical age but literally generations of our people have given much of their lives to establishing and cherishing the Labour party because they believed what the party told them when they joined.

We want to spread the movement and want people to join in. Any one who is against corruption should join, be it Baba Ramdev or the common man.

I was a chairwoman of my state Democratic party.

We the voice of the young world. We the voice of the people.