“I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.”

First public speech as Ugandan president (26 January 1986), as quoted in &quot;Rebel Sworn in as Uganda President&quot; http://www.nytimes.com/1986/01/30/world/rebel-sworn-in-as-uganda-president.html (30 January 1986), by Sheila Rule, The New York Times <br class="br">1980s

Late 1910s, quoted in E. H. H. Green, The Crisis of Conservatism (London: Routledge, 1996), p. 141.
1910s

PENN Address (2004)
Context: I didn't expect change to come so slow, so agonizingly slow. I didn't realize that the biggest obstacle to political and social progress wasn't the Free Masons, or the Establishment, or the boot heel of whatever you consider 'the Man' to be, it was something much more subtle. As the Provost just referred to, a combination of our own indifference and the Kafkaesque labyrinth of 'no's you encounter as people vanish down the corridors of bureaucracy.

Address to the 2005 G8 climate change summit in London, as reported by David Adam, &quot;Blair signals shift over climate change&quot;, http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2005/nov/02/greenpolitics.frontpagenews The Guardian, 1 November 2005. <br class="br">2000s

Third Session of Parliament (June 30, 2007)

Source: Why We Fail as Christians (1919), p. 72

G. Fuller (ed.), Potter on Potter (Faber and Faber, 1993), p. 14
On his candidature in East Hertfordshire in the 1964 general election, which formed the basis of his play "Vote, vote, vote for Nigel Barton"

Speech delivered at the second congress of the peace partisans (April 14, 1959).
Principles of the 14th July Revolution (1959)

Source: It