163 Quotes by David Blunkett

What I am clear about is that I have made a mistake, ... I thought there was going to be increasing damage done to the government by me.

I'm convinced that quite a lot of young people, when they get in trouble with the law, it's a cry for help there. Because it's not that they go out to offend. It's that their behaviour is self-parading, it's the big 'I'. And sometimes that means they're really lacking in confidence.

Throughout my political life, I've not been a stranger to controversy.

I may be blind, but I can see how inspiring it is to be me.

I'm as keen as the next person to preserve the right to free speech.

There are some really good experiments with the youth offending service, joining up youth offending teams with the youth justice board, and good local authority and primary care trusts working together.

If you have a sense of irony or humour, you're usually cut down, as you're usually distorted or misinterpreted. So it does lead to us being slightly more dour and staid and predictable than would otherwise be the case, which I personally find quite frustrating - because if you don't laugh occasionally in my job, you cry most of the time.

Yes, it will go through the disciplines that all puppies go through including house training and puppy walking, then at twelve month old it the training becomes a lot more rigorous which has to be done carefully otherwise you are in danger of stressing the dog.

In primary schools, I set two main objectives - to cut infant class sizes and improve literacy and numeracy.