Patricia Hewitt Quotes

#1. Fifty per cent of the public doesn't know what 'fifty per cent' means.

Patricia Hewitt

#2. But getting your party structure right may also be a precondition for getting your policies right.

Patricia Hewitt

#3. Well I think all I would say on that is, when we were in opposition in Britain and Hawke and then Keating were in power here, Labor was in power here, we learnt a huge amount from the ALP's experience here.

Patricia Hewitt

#4. And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.

Patricia Hewitt

#5. The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

Henry George

#6. But when I lay wi' Emily - from the first time. I knew. Kent who I was again." He looked up at her then, eyes dark and shadowed by loss. "My soul didna wander while I slept - when I slept wi' her.

Diana Gabaldon

#7. And I hope very much that the ALP will become increasingly engaged in the international discussions that are taking place amongst centre-left parties generally.

Patricia Hewitt

#8. I used to be, when I was young, I used to be extremely regular and very organized.

Tony Gilroy

#9. Dance music is Madonna's base. It's what she likes, it's what she listens to. It's not anything other than that. She doesn't read what's on the charts. And if it's on time, great. This is who she is.

Guy Oseary

#10. Business leaders must not cling to old ways of doing business, or allow inertia or complacency to prevent them from making the decisions that they will eventually be forced to make.

Patricia Hewitt

#11. If we aggressively pursue truth, if we are willing to sacrifice, if we look for wisdom from those on the periphery, we have the potential to shock the world from its apathy.

Stephan Bauman

#12. The more you talk, the less you'll have to say.
The more you listen, the more sensible will be what you say.

Ralph Nader

#13. Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures. It spoke to me. To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood.

Joni Mitchell

#14. Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied ... That's why they can keep on working. I've been able to work for so long because I think next time, I'll make something good.

Akira Kurosawa

#15. Really, why? You're a household name, you still have a fear of public speaking?" "Well, I am human. Just because I'm a household name doesn't mean anything. It actually makes things even worse in my opinion.

India T. Norfleet

#16. Barbara Castle was a hero to millions of British women. She inspired a new generation of women to become active in Labour politics, including, of course Labour's deputy leader, Harriet Harman.

Patricia Hewitt

#17. I never land on Sundays. Sundays are boring.

David Tennant

#18. But clearly at the same time you've got to get out there and connect with voters and actually respond to the needs, the frustrations, whatever problems their now saying are not being adequately solved.

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#19. A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.

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#20. The 2 million people who work in the NHS and social care are also themselves patients and users. I know they all want to treat patients and users the way they and their families would want to be treated and that is the purpose of our reforms.

Patricia Hewitt

#21. Looking at her was like stepping into a patch of spring sunlight after the harshest winter.

Kate Evangelista

#22. So there clearly is a sense in which the Labour Party here, certainly at State level is reaching out and connecting with people and reflecting the aspirations and needs of, you know the mass of ordinary Australians.

Patricia Hewitt

#23. The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.

Patricia Hewitt

#24. I have very real concerns about the civil liberties implications of ultimately requiring every resident to submit themselves for compulsory fingerprinting or some other biometric test.

Patricia Hewitt

#25. Lincoln replied:"There is a difference between secession against the Constitution and in favor of the Constitution.

Clint Johnson

#26. We just have to be crystal clear that if we were to abandon all the reforms made over some very painful years in the Labour party, we would be consigned back to opposition.

Patricia Hewitt

#27. People are not perfect ... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.

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#28. And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.

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#29. As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.

Patricia Hewitt

#30. I kind of date my musical discovery back to when I was 13 years old, getting my iTunes account and using that as a major tool to discover new music.

Nick Jonas

#31. You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that.

Patricia Hewitt

#32. I think he was absolutely right not to go to UN last week ... First things first - that is, values and people here in their local communities, and remembering all politics is local, and trusting people more.

Patricia Hewitt

#33. Barbara Castle should have been Labour's - and Britain's - first female prime minister. What a role model she would have been: passionate, fiery, and absolutely committed to social justice.

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#34. Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win.

Patricia Hewitt

#35. When you finally betray me, I hope you care enough to try to kill my yourself.

Drew Karpyshyn

#36. We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.

Patricia Hewitt

#37. The more that you expect, the less happy you will be
because if the expectations are realized you won't be grateful

Dennis Prager

#38. You don't repair that relationship by sitting down and talking about trust or making promises. Actually, what rebuilds it is living it and doing things differently - and I think that is what is going to make the difference.

Patricia Hewitt