My job as Labour Home Secretary is to ensure people are prepared to listen to us when we take on our opponents… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
Nothing is more important for young people than enhancing their life chances, liberating their potential and encouraging their contribution to a globally… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
Changes to parliamentary procedure won't transform the lives of the people whom I represent. Decentralising, devolving decision-making and renewing civil society will. — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
Strengthening our identity is one way of reinforcing people's confidence and sense of citizenship and well-being. — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
Simple numbers of people of a particular age tell us nothing about the condition of their health, the environment in which they… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
We've got to get back to old-fashioned politics that's in touch with the people we seek to represent and to avoid self-inflicted… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
At this very moment in time there will be people making, breaking relationships, regretting deeply what they've done, and causing hurt, but… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
We need a government which, yes, guarantees basic standards in public services, but which also steps in to protect people's wellbeing as… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
Let's not allow the voice of the people to be overwhelmed by the siren song of those who opposed regulation, who demanded… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
We must draw on our early roots and remind people why the Labour party was created and who it sought to represent.… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
I said it's impossible to have an amnesty without ID cards and a clean database, because you firstly don't have any incentives… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
We have a media that presents every politician as being as bad as the next. There is no distinguishing between one good… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
Children whose parents return to study do much better at school. Offenders who persist with studies are much less likely to reoffend.… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
Much extremist activity falls short of directly inciting people to violence or other crimes and so is not caught by laws on… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
I love the walk although my security team weren't too sure to begin with but I was anxious to be able to… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that quite a lot of young people, when they get in trouble with the law, it's a cry for help… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
If you don't create a sense of order and stability, if people do not feel secure, then progressive politics is dead. That… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
People from all over the world were killed in the attacks on the World Trade Centre. They came from many different cultural,… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
It is feasible for someone who comes from a privileged background to understand the privilege they have had and to use the… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
Strengthening our identity is one way of reinforcing people's confidence and sense of citizenship and well-being. — David Blunkett Copy Share
Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance. — David Blunkett Copy Share
I don't think anyone can say I have said one thing in public and done another in private. — David Blunkett Copy Share
As a former home secretary, I have access to and knowledge of the workings of the system in a way that individuals unfamiliar with… — David Blunkett Copy Share
The Home Office culture was one of being just above the problem, of hovering just out of reach of knowing what was going on… — David Blunkett Copy Share
And we think that our citizens and yours would be very angry if they thought that we hadnt taken every possible step for prevention… — David Blunkett Copy Share
I was affected by the harshness of government, the reality of 16-hour days, and the pressures of modern communications. — David Blunkett Copy Share
Yes, it will go through the disciplines that all puppies go through including house training and puppy walking, then at twelve month old it… — David Blunkett Copy Share
At school, I was brought up on revolting food - sausages, sausages and Spam - but at home, I had the most wonderful sponge… — David Blunkett Copy Share
Let's not allow the voice of the people to be overwhelmed by the siren song of those who opposed regulation, who demanded that government… — David Blunkett Copy Share
The clash between capital and labour, between those seeking to maximise profit and those with only their toil to sell, was the driving force… — David Blunkett Copy Share
Without the political parties and the volunteering work of their members day in, day out, we would have a very different sort of politics… — David Blunkett Copy Share
If I pleaded guilty to a mistake while I was home secretary, it wasn't that I didn't get tough - my God, I put… — David Blunkett Copy Share
We have put over £2bn in the last three years into counter-terrorism and we are developing the electronic border surveillance and identity cards — David Blunkett Copy Share
