"We’re seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics." ― Patricia Hewitt Topic(s): Politics More From Patricia Hewitt "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." "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." "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." More In Politics "Politics and power is a realm of relative influence."― Fareed Zakaria "The good news about me is that my friends and social network is entirely independent of politics."― Andrew Sullivan "When I started ‘CNN,’ I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn’t going to come from me."― Ted Turner