Quotes by Patricia Hewitt

A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users. (Patricia Hewitt)

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)

And some of what were 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)

But around the idea of a new centre-left, and new progressive politics that can respond, for instance to the globalisation of our economy. (Patricia Hewitt)

But getting your party structure right may also be a precondition for getting your policies right. (Patricia Hewitt)

Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when youve lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win. (Patricia Hewitt)

I suppose the one very striking thing, you know, to a British observer is the fact that Labour is in power in every State in Australia. (Patricia Hewitt)

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)

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. (Patricia Hewitt)

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)