Top 103 Quotes & Sayings by Liz Kendall

I'm proud to be feminist.

I want every Labour Council to lead a revolution in opening horizons for pupils and making better educational chances everyone's business.

I don't think it's principled to give up on electoral victory to make ourselves feel good.

Services should revolve around those who use them and be fit for the future, not stuck in the past.

My parents are like many across Britain. Neither on the breadline, nor loaded, they were determined to give their daughter all that any of us can ask from our parents: love, security, ambition and hope.

The Labour party is the greatest champion of equality and opportunity this country has even known.

When Labour loses we do one of three things. We decide we didn't win because we weren't leftwing enough: fantasy. We decide we can avoid the really tough decisions because they are too uncomfortable: a fudge. Or we decide that winning is too important.

Labour was formed to be the voice of community organisers, civic leaders and workplace activists, whose fight against poverty and injustice involved organising for their values, their principles and their loved ones.

I can't pretend to being particularly happy about Jeremy Corbyn being leader of the Labour party.

I don't want anyone to be put off going into politics - particularly women - if they feel that they're going to get personal questions.

Those who pursue the ideology of Isil are not children - they are responsible for their own actions, driven by their own ideology.

Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters do not have a monopoly on principle.

I am a person who loves and wants to be loved.

Being leader is a tough gig.

Oh, I could never leave the Labour party. I could no longer leave the Labour party than leave my own family.

We urgently need an open and honest debate with the public about what help and support they will be entitled to when they are older, and what it is reasonable for them to contribute in return.

As you get older, of course you want to be settled, but life changes and it doesn't work out. Who knows what will happen?

Look I'm in favour of free movement of labour but not free movement of benefits; people who come here should come to work and that is extremely important that that is dealt with.

I'm not a Blairite candidate, I'm my own candidate.

For too long, politics has been about politicians winning power to take decisions about everyone else.

Leadership means saying what you believe.

I don't want to protest. I want to get into power.

Securing dignity for everyone in old age means transforming support for families who look after their elderly and disabled loved ones, and fully joining up the NHS and social care - not setting local services in aspic.

I would radically redesign early years education to learn from the best bits of the Finnish system.

Making sure there are good jobs that pay a decent wage in every part of the country means backing hi-tech companies, modern manufacturing, Britain's scientists and creative industries - not spending billions of pounds reopening coal mines or renationalising huge swaths of the economy.

We have learned - or at least we should have - that seeing Islamist extremism purely as a reaction to what we do is fundamentally mistaken. Indeed that view - Western centric as it is - belittles the threat we face. It implies we can somehow opt out of this fight, that if we hide maybe they will leave us alone.

People's taxes spent on servicing our national debt, instead of funding public services. This isn't just a waste - it's also a risk.

Friendly societies, educational associations and trade unions gave working people the power to shape their own lives.

Labour grew out of popular movements of mutualism and self-help.

You do your best, you work hard for yourself, for your family and others.

Making sure children from all backgrounds learn about opportunities that are usually available to a few, is an inspiring vision of what our schools can be. That means ensuring there is strong leadership and great teachers, particularly in the most deprived areas.

I wish I'd known what type of learner I was as a child - I could have done better.

We need welfare reform to get people back to work and provide proper support for those that can't.

You can't sort out crime unless locals have a good relationship with the police. You can't tackle health challenges unless people have an active role in their own health.

You fall in love with your constituency, you really do.

Can you imagine the Mail on Sunday asking the weight of the prime minister, George Osborne or any other leading politician? I just think it's unbelievable that in the 21st century women still get asked such very, very different questions from men.

There are moments in life we all remember, and I will never forget where I was on 7 July 2005 when the awful news came through that a series of bombs had gone off on the London Underground and on a London bus.

Our values are precious: the freedom to elect or kick out a government; the freedom to worship in different places; and the freedom that allows me as a woman to wear what I want, to choose any career that I want, and to love whom I want. These values are vital. They are part of us. And they are worth defending with everything we have.

I don't want to win power for myself. I want to win it to give it away.

Some people think we can have everything we want without making any difficult decisions. They have forgotten what it takes to win. It is fantasy politics.

A jobs-first Brexit deal means remaining in the single market and customs union.

We can't turn back and be the unelectable party of protest.

Let me just say this - I may not have children myself, but I am part of the best family in the world - my mum, my dad, my brothers and my nieces.

I want to stand up for Britain's national interests.

In Finland they are brilliant at ensuring no young person falls behind. From the day a child is born they are visited by health workers who assess their well-being and developmental. The health workers work with psychologists and speech therapists and aim to identify any problems at a very early stage.

Creating a more equal society means tackling the inequalities that emerge before children even start school.

When it comes to public services, I am firmly on the side of the public.

David Cameron should be focusing on what is in Britain's national interest and our place in the world, not on internal party politics.

Life doesn't have to be the way it is. We can change it. That's why I'm in politics.

My goal is to get power out of Westminster and into the hands of the people it affects. That means sharing power with those who have none and using national and local government to help people to help themselves and one another.

I hated what Margaret Thatcher had done. How she'd taken jobs. I hated her divide and rule politics.

When people say, 'You don't have a family' it makes my blood boil. I thought, 'Yes I do, I have my dad, my mum, my brothers and nieces.'

There is no point saying you believe in economic responsbility and being careful with taxpayers money if public services are a reform-free zone.

People are forged in the fire of their first political experience.

I was a huge Kinnock fan. He was a man of ideas.

The NHS needs to change fundamentally. It's a fragmented service when it should be joined-up. It's a last-minute crisis intervention service when it should be about prevention. It's a sickness service when it should have promoting health as its core. Crucially, it doesn't do enough to help people to help themselves.

Winning is not selling your soul. Winning is not betrayal. Winning is the means of applying your principles.

When enough people stand together they can change the world.

I well remember the pride that my parents felt when my brother and I went up to Cambridge, but I also know many friends that I grew up with - brilliant, funny, acutely intelligent girls - who never fulfilled their potential.

Parties always win when they set out a positive and optimistic and confident vision for the future, when they have a broad appeal.