David Blunkett quote: "Balancing the common good with the freedom and liberty to exercise that individuality has been and remains a challenge for those committed to democracy while understanding that the polis ensures our participation and therefore our citizenship."

Bishops and judges are some of the best politicians in the world. They know how to manipulate the po...
DAVID BLUNKETT

If surveillance infiltrates our homes and personal relationships, that is a gross breach of our huma...
DAVID BLUNKETT

I said it's impossible to have an amnesty without ID cards and a clean database, because you fir...
DAVID BLUNKETT

We need dynamic and thriving businesses and a skilled and adaptable labour force to produce competit...
DAVID BLUNKETT

When I'm in London I do have the convenience of being close to St James Park which is also good ...
DAVID BLUNKETT

I'm a great aficionado of history. I was deeply affected by seeing the disintegration of any cha...
DAVID BLUNKETT

Strengthening our identity is one way of reinforcing people's confidence and sense of citizenshi...
DAVID BLUNKETT

Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would...
DAVID BLUNKETT

Where asylum is used as a route to economic migration, it can cause deep resentment in the host comm...
DAVID BLUNKETT

Politics is only worthwhile if you are doing what you believe, regardless of the slings and arrows.
DAVID BLUNKETT

When I first came into parliament, there was, on average, a by-election every three months - due not...
DAVID BLUNKETT

Solidarity and interdependence, a sense of worth, a pride and hope in the future: these are positive...
DAVID BLUNKETT

Crucially, I'd like to thank Labour party members up and down the country for sticking with us. ...
DAVID BLUNKETT

If, in the name of liberty, we allow individuals to act in a way that damages the wellbeing of the w...
DAVID BLUNKETT

The democratic state can sometimes abuse its power as much as those who seek to destroy it abuse fun...
DAVID BLUNKETT

I'm in favour of a sensible development of response units and their deployment in any circumstan...
DAVID BLUNKETT

It is certainly true that as we grow older, our need for healthcare also grows. It is also true that...
DAVID BLUNKETT

I didn't come into politics to have to deal with the issue of clandestine entry, illegal working...
DAVID BLUNKETT

How to strike the right balance between our privacy and our expectation that the state will protect ...
DAVID BLUNKETT

My integrity had been called into question; I was being called a liar, and I am not a liar. And I ju...
DAVID BLUNKETT

It is feasible for someone who comes from a privileged background to understand the privilege they h...
DAVID BLUNKETT

Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling, in hosting the G20 summit and in the budget, must display the sam...
DAVID BLUNKETT

the state has a role in helping people through rapid economic change. But not as a permanent safety ...
DAVID BLUNKETT

Children whose parents return to study do much better at school. Offenders who persist with studies ...
DAVID BLUNKETT

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

We must draw on our early roots and remind people why the Labour party was created and who it sought...
DAVID BLUNKETT

As education and employment secretary in 1997, I inherited hundreds of schools where the roofs leake...
DAVID BLUNKETT

I believe Britishness is defined not on ethnic and exclusive grounds but through shared values; our ...
DAVID BLUNKETT

If you have a sense of irony or humour, you're usually cut down, as you're usually distorted...
DAVID BLUNKETT

With the commissioning of new schools undertaken by a local director of school standards, decisions ...
DAVID BLUNKETT

I did not in late November start the plethora of linking my private life with public events again.
DAVID BLUNKETT

I was affected by the harshness of government, the reality of 16-hour days, and the pressures of mod...
DAVID BLUNKETT

The Home Office culture was one of being just above the problem, of hovering just out of reach of kn...
DAVID BLUNKETT

Being an MP is not a desperately hard life, like going down the pit or working in the steelworks - w...
DAVID BLUNKETT

In an ageing society, it makes sense to support older adults to develop new skills, prolonging their...
DAVID BLUNKETT

We obviously have the right to go back to Parliament and to say 'We, the sovereign body who are elec...
DAVID BLUNKETT

Politicians are just as human as anybody else.
DAVID BLUNKETT

I regret the time and resources needed to undertake this but... it is right to lay this accusation t...
DAVID BLUNKETT

None of us believe countering terrorism is about party politics
DAVID BLUNKETT

I want to go back to a time when I was very young, when you expected the police to be part of the co...
DAVID BLUNKETT

They should go back home and re-create their countries which we have freed from tyranny, whether it ...
DAVID BLUNKETT

If anyone... seriously believes that a further exponential rise in the prison population for short-t...
DAVID BLUNKETT

Sir John was an excellent Commissioner and I was proud he invited me to speak at a number of his far...
DAVID BLUNKETT

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

a marathon not a sprint
DAVID BLUNKETT

Strengthening our identity is one way or reinforcing people's confidence and sense of citizenship an...
DAVID BLUNKETT

Yes, it will go through the disciplines that all puppies go through including house training and pup...
DAVID BLUNKETT

At this very moment in time there will be people making, breaking relationships, regretting deeply w...
DAVID BLUNKETT

At school, I was brought up on revolting food - sausages, sausages and Spam - but at home, I had the...
DAVID BLUNKETT

It would be dangerous territory if I wasn't practising what I preach which is to always accept r...
DAVID BLUNKETT

We need to reaffirm that politics is not merely compatible with economic progress and development in...
DAVID BLUNKETT

There are some really good experiments with the youth offending service, joining up youth offending ...
DAVID BLUNKETT

I am not a parliamentarian. I am a politician. Some MPs leave and are itching to get back. I don'...
DAVID BLUNKETT

best used in the U.S. not in Britain.
DAVID BLUNKETT

History teaches us that, whatever we say, racists will always distort the words of mainstream politi...
DAVID BLUNKETT

In Sheffield, we need support from the community and for the community. We need integration with no ...
DAVID BLUNKETT

I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister.
DAVID BLUNKETT

Let's not allow the voice of the people to be overwhelmed by the siren song of those who opposed...
DAVID BLUNKETT

We need to build on what we know works - local oversight of schools to keep a check on performance, ...
DAVID BLUNKETT

The clash between capital and labour, between those seeking to maximise profit and those with only t...
DAVID BLUNKETT

In government, you are pressed by the security agencies. They come to you with very good information...
DAVID BLUNKETT

If you don't create a sense of order and stability, if people do not feel secure, then progressi...
DAVID BLUNKETT

Changes to parliamentary procedure won't transform the lives of the people whom I represent. Dec...
DAVID BLUNKETT

In today's world, learning has become the key to economic prosperity, social cohesion and person...
DAVID BLUNKETT

Reciprocity helps us balance the need for self-determination and creative individuality with mutual ...
DAVID BLUNKETT

And we think that our citizens and yours would be very angry if they thought that we hadn't take...
DAVID BLUNKETT

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

My biggest objection to Marxism has been the presumption that industry should exist at all. I think ...
DAVID DAVID KATZMAN

I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've stil...
LARRY DAVID

The area where I grew up in Birmingham was very diverse - I was aware of my race but not overly awar...
DAVID HAREWOOD

Birmingham people are the salt of the earth, and I've carried that with me all around the world....
DAVID HAREWOOD

In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to ...
DAVID COVERDALE

George W. Bush: a person who is the ultimate outcome of the American condition. Someone promoted abo...
DAVID LANGE

Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all k...
DAVID LYNCH

Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a...
DAVID CHALMERS

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
DAVID HARE

The Doctor' is the kind of character - because the guest cast is changing all the time, there ar...
DAVID TENNANT

It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel lik...
DAVID LETTERMAN

Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs i...
DAVID CRYSTAL

I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory th...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH

Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.
DAVID BAILEY

Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and le...
DAVID BAILEY

The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. The...
DAVID BAILEY

I always go for simplicity.
DAVID BAILEY

I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.
DAVID BAILEY

All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It wa...
DAVID BAILEY

You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.
DAVID BAILEY

I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.
DAVID BAILEY

People want security in this insecure world.
DAVID BAILEY

I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.
DAVID BAILEY

It's not about composition. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to ea...
DAVID BAILEY

Girls are more attractive to me than dresses.
DAVID BAILEY

Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.
DAVID BAILEY

Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out...
DAVID BAILEY

I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can p...
DAVID BAILEY

If you're curious, London's an amazing place.
DAVID BAILEY

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other ...
DAVID BAILEY

The skull is nature's sculpture.
DAVID BAILEY

Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.
DAVID BAILEY

Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.
DAVID BAILEY

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youth...
DAVID BOWIE

I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood...
LARRY DAVID

You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things i...
DAVID BOWIE

People use irony as a defense mechanism.
DAVID BYRNE

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and ...
DAVID BYRNE

I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not go...
DAVID BYRNE

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?
DAVID BYRNE

I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.
DAVID BYRNE

I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. ...
DAVID BYRNE

That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you.
DAVID BYRNE

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their d...
DAVID BYRNE

If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's rea...
DAVID BYRNE

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.
DAVID BYRNE

On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the go...
DAVID BYRNE

I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.
DAVID BYRNE

The arts don't exist in isolation.
DAVID BYRNE

There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide ex...
DAVID BYRNE

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.
DAVID BYRNE

Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown...
DAVID BYRNE

Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It cle...
DAVID BYRNE

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.
DAVID BYRNE

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.
DAVID BYRNE

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away f...
DAVID BYRNE

Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.
DAVID BYRNE

I like time off. I'm not a workaholic.
DAVID THEWLIS

I've had an awful lot of good fortune.
DAVID CASSIDY

Every day is a blessing - not to get too schmaltzy, but, really, it is.
DAVID CASSIDY

What happened to me during the last couple of years of 'The Partridge Family' was I became s...
DAVID CASSIDY

There were times when I was a joke, but talent survives.
DAVID CASSIDY

You can't be 24 again; you can't be new when you're 40 years old.
DAVID CASSIDY

Most people view success by the results, and I don't.
DAVID CASSIDY

I think of my career as something apart from myself.
DAVID CASSIDY

You know, many people who become famous and enjoy great success when they're young disappear aft...
DAVID CASSIDY

I wouldn't want to play anything bigger than 10,000 again. I think it's too much, and you lo...
DAVID CASSIDY

Let me tell you, 10,000 is an intimate room. Believe me. I want to be able to connect to everybody i...
DAVID CASSIDY

When you cut your life into a film - 90-some minutes of film - you end up taking snapshots and vigne...
DAVID CASSIDY

Until I really dealt with a lot of the demons in my life - the fear and self-doubt and unresolved is...
DAVID CASSIDY

I gave up my whole life to my career.
DAVID CASSIDY

Just getting your name in the papers and having people talk about you is not always a good thing.
DAVID CASSIDY

There's nothing wrong with becoming a role model, nothing wrong with inspiring people to become ...
DAVID CASSIDY

It's always nice to have people love you, but I'd just like to be judged fairly.
DAVID CASSIDY

It wasn't until later when people became aware of my writing that I would hear begrudgingly, ...
DAVID CASSIDY

If people respond to the songs, whether they love you or hate you, then you've really done your ...
DAVID CASSIDY

Anybody who carries the albatross of that teen-idol thing - well, people tend to look and say: '...
DAVID CASSIDY

I don't want to end up being some joke on a bad TV series.
DAVID CASSIDY

I just want to continue to produce good work. I don't want to do junk.
DAVID CASSIDY

Just do me a favor. Don't call me 'former teen heartthrob,' okay? It's as if they we...
DAVID CASSIDY

I hitched up to Haight-Ashbury in the Summer of Love, you know? And I was very much politically alig...
DAVID CASSIDY

Contrary to public opinion and the image people have of me, I grew up in a very lower-middle-class, ...
DAVID CASSIDY

It was amazing for me growing up in the musical decade of the '60s. I saw The Beatles on televis...
DAVID CASSIDY

Doing musicals and theatrical productions, I never did any of my hits.
DAVID CASSIDY

I turned up to all my son's performances and baseball games because my father never did that for...
DAVID CASSIDY

I was very wary of repeating my father's behaviour and did everything not to act like he did.
DAVID CASSIDY

Most definitely, my dad was my biggest influence.
DAVID CASSIDY

My first five albums were triple-platinum, and I played a lot of concerts.
DAVID CASSIDY

The television and film business has never really been kind or compassionate, in general.
DAVID CASSIDY

It's amazing what happens to your body as you get a little older.
DAVID CASSIDY

I didn't end up some sad, tragic guy singing in a lounge somewhere. I never went out and took bi...
DAVID CASSIDY

Nobody likes to be rejected, you know?
DAVID CASSIDY

I nearly died twice after I replaced Michael Crawford in 'EFX.'
DAVID CASSIDY

I work for me, 18 hours a day. It's my gig. So I don't have time to get a point of view.
DAVID CASSIDY

I don't listen to the news or read newspapers. I don't know what's going on in this worl...
DAVID CASSIDY

You cannot make a teenage idol.
DAVID CASSIDY

It's a difficult journey when you're going through a divorce, is it not, for anyone?
DAVID CASSIDY

Thoroughbred racing is really my true passion. I'm living my dream.
DAVID CASSIDY

I understand the rock star deal having been one and still going out strapping my guitar on and perfo...
DAVID CASSIDY

If you put the talent of all my brothers together, they wouldn't add up to the talent that was i...
DAVID CASSIDY

I'm never going to retire and say, 'This is it. This is my last show.' I will not go on ...
DAVID CASSIDY

I was silver-white by the time I was 35, but having grey hair makes me look washed out. My wife and ...
DAVID CASSIDY

I look fine. I've had no surgery apart from an operation I had decades ago to remove the fat und...
DAVID CASSIDY

I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.
DAVID CASSIDY

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger...
DAVID BOWIE

I read in one fan magazine that I was very self-centered. And I am.
DAVID CASSIDY

We are too occupied with celebrity. Believe me, it's not what it's cracked to be.
DAVID CASSIDY

All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and ...
DAVID CASSIDY

Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.'
DAVID CASSIDY

My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recolle...
DAVID CASSIDY

Once they began doing 'Celebrity Apprentice,' apparently the audience wasn't that keen o...
DAVID CASSIDY

My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.
DAVID CASSIDY

I've always had a special relationship with the U.K. fans, because even when I wasn't workin...
DAVID CASSIDY

My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I.
DAVID CASSIDY

I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows.
DAVID CASSIDY

I don't need to remind myself of the trophies. I know what I accomplished.
DAVID CASSIDY

What I want is credibility I got as a songwriter and actor and doing 'Blood Brothers' on Bro...
DAVID CASSIDY

In the '80s, it was difficult and frustrating to appear in the theater and TV again, even though...
DAVID CASSIDY

All that stuff - 'teen idol' - that wasn't me.
DAVID CASSIDY

I wasn't ever a bad guy, and I was never arrested or anything like that, but I was a wild boy in...
DAVID CASSIDY

I saw Jimi Hendrix - it must have been four times. And he was incomparable, and his legend lives on.
DAVID CASSIDY

Acting was absolutely my first focus. I graduated high school in L.A., and two weeks afterwards, I m...
DAVID CASSIDY

I've really sensed that people have an affection for me.
DAVID CASSIDY

I've done an enormous amount of bringing light into people's lives, and I'm very proud o...
DAVID CASSIDY

I bought my first horse when I was 15. I always loved racing and I started studying about breeding a...
DAVID CASSIDY

I've always had a love for horses since I was really young. When I was 5 years old, the only thi...
DAVID CASSIDY

My mother gave up a good part of her career to look after me.
DAVID CASSIDY

In a very short period of time, actors can become kind of relevant and hot.
DAVID CASSIDY

I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw s...
DAVID CASSIDY

I found myself very lost after 'The Partridge Family,' and I lost my dad and I lost my manag...
DAVID CASSIDY

I've been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five yea...
DAVID CASSIDY

It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes.
DAVID CASSIDY

We live in a world of strange priorities, where Kim Kardashian buying a Lamborghini creates internat...
DAVID HAREWOOD

Balancing the common good with the freedom and liberty to exercise that individuality has been and remains a challenge for those committed to democracy while understanding that the polis ensures our participation and therefore our citizenship.

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Balancing the common good with the freedom and liberty to exercise that individuality has been and remains a challenge for those committed to democracy while understanding that the polis ensures our participation and therefore our citizenship.

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