Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that.

I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.

Blair is regarded by most people in Britain as a smarmy git.

There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices.