November 1953, quoted in Alan Watkins The Liberal Dilemma (Macgibbon and Kee, 1966) p. 91.
“I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.”
Michael White, "Blair wants 'to make UK young again'", Guardian, 4 October 1995.
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