Being Quotes by David Blunkett

10 Being quotes by David Blunkett

If you’re after a short, clear set of statements from David Blunkett about existence, these ten lines deliver. Their straightforward tone matches his pragmatic approach.

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Being home secretary involves having to face some of the worst of human behaviour and challenges of modern society.

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My integrity had been called into question; I was being called a liar, and I am not a liar. And I just…

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As home secretary, I gained a reputation for being 'tough'; less concerned with liberty than with public protection.

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Being a Labour home secretary in the 21st century means fighting a constant battle against both extreme Right and Left.

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The Home Office culture was one of being just above the problem, of hovering just out of reach of knowing what was…

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Despite being in public life, I value my own privacy immensely and would be as concerned as anyone else if I thought…

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Being an MP is not a desperately hard life, like going down the pit or working in the steelworks - with which…

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Crucially, I'd like to thank Labour party members up and down the country for sticking with us. For their active citizenship, their…

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If you have a sense of irony or humour, you're usually cut down, as you're usually distorted or misinterpreted. So it does…

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We have a media that presents every politician as being as bad as the next. There is no distinguishing between one good…

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Strengthening our identity is one way of reinforcing people's confidence and sense of citizenship and well-being.

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Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance.

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I don't think anyone can say I have said one thing in public and done another in private.

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As a former home secretary, I have access to and knowledge of the workings of the system in a way that individuals unfamiliar with…

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And we think that our citizens and yours would be very angry if they thought that we hadnt taken every possible step for prevention…

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I was affected by the harshness of government, the reality of 16-hour days, and the pressures of modern communications.

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Yes, it will go through the disciplines that all puppies go through including house training and puppy walking, then at twelve month old it…

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At school, I was brought up on revolting food - sausages, sausages and Spam - but at home, I had the most wonderful sponge…

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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…

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The clash between capital and labour, between those seeking to maximise profit and those with only their toil to sell, was the driving force…

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Without the political parties and the volunteering work of their members day in, day out, we would have a very different sort of politics…

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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…

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I have always been honest about my recollection of events.

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We have put over £2bn in the last three years into counter-terrorism and we are developing the electronic border surveillance and identity cards

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