163 Quotes by David Blunkett

Privacy is a right, but as in any democratic society, it is not an absolute right.

It is a mistake to separate learning for work and for community and personal development.

People from all over the world were killed in the attacks on the World Trade Centre. They came from many different cultural, ethnic and religious backgrounds. Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Hindu believers were killed together as they worked in the towers.

If you don't create a sense of order and stability, if people do not feel secure, then progressive politics is dead. That is a fact of history. The right has always emerged supreme when destabilisation and insecurity prevail.

Speaking for the nation as a whole entails understanding and feeling the pain, as well as understanding the aspiration of the different cultural, social and political make-up of the nation.

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

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

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

As a former home secretary, I have access to and knowledge of the workings of the system in a way that individuals unfamiliar with the courts can never hope to have.