Tony Blair Quotes

When I first put my hat in the ring, several very tried and true and loyal Democratic activists from our community said, 'What? She's not a Democrat. She's a Republican.' I took that as a compliment, you know, that people didn't necessarily know what my ideology might be because I wasn't driven by that.

I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.

California Democrats - we fight on the front lines - we don't equivocate on the sidelines.

I have no problem with saying I am a socialist or with saying I'm a feminist. That's how I was when I was 15, and you know, I haven't grown out of it and probably never will.

I'm a Democrat, and I think people who meet me will realize I'm a Democrat. I have progressive Democratic values.

I am, you know, a Democrat through and through. I've always voted Democratic. You know, that is where my heart lies.

I have moved on from being a British parliamentarian, I have moved on from being a New Labour politician, I have moved on from being the supporter in the active day-to-day sense of Tony Blair.

I am a lifelong Democrat.

I came out of the womb into the Labour movement.

We stand in the centre ground of the Labour party and our traditions. The policies we are advocating go right back to the beginning.

I'm a liberal - and I'm not running from that word!

I have stuck my neck out to stand with a party whose ideologies are closest to mine.

Well, I am not afraid of the word 'liberal.'

I've got to say that I don't see myself as some sort of political type like Alec Baldwin or Barbra Streisand. I don't want to come across like that. I'd be embarrassed if that was the way I came across.

I'm a loyal Democrat.

I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word!

I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.

Of all my false identities, the strategies in my campaign to be accepted, being a sworn Republican is the hardest to explain. In my later political life, I can only be described as a Kennedy Democrat, eager to pursue equitable treatment for the least fortunate.

When I joined Labour in 1982, I didn't feel I belonged to a party born to power. My repeated experience was of bitter and repeated defeats.

The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life.

What people should understand is that I adore the Labour party.

I always laugh and say, 'Dudes, if I have to choose, I'm a political person first. I would never do another movie again and be completely happy.' I need to say how I feel.

I will go out of this world feet first with my Lib Dem membership card in my pocket.

I am a Democrat. I have been one all of my life.

If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong.