Patricia Hewitt Quotes

• But clearly at the same time you’ve got to get out there and connect with voters and actually respond to the needs, the frustrations, whatever problems their now saying are not being adequately solved.

  Patricia Hewitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Problem, Respond

• A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.

  Patricia Hewitt

  Topics in Health

  Tags in Social, Social Work

• I have very real concerns about the civil liberties implications of ultimately requiring every resident to submit themselves for compulsory fingerprinting or some other biometric test.

  Patricia Hewitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Civil

• And I hope very much that the ALP will become increasingly engaged in the international discussions that are taking place amongst centre-left parties generally.

  Patricia Hewitt

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Discussion

• And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.

  Patricia Hewitt

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Labour

• As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.

  Patricia Hewitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Patient, Generation

• Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you’ve lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win.

  Patricia Hewitt

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Expecting

• But getting your party structure right may also be a precondition for getting your policies right.

  Patricia Hewitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Right

• 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

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Think, Trusted

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Australian

• The 2 million people who work in the NHS and social care are also themselves patients and users. I know they all want to treat patients and users the way they and their families would want to be treated and that is the purpose of our reforms.

  Patricia Hewitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Social, Care

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government

• The accusation that we’ve lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.

  Patricia Hewitt

  Topics in Soul

  Tags in Lost

• We’re seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.

  Patricia Hewitt

  Topics in Politics

• 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

  Topics in Work

  Tags in People, Perfect

• We just have to be crystal clear that if we were to abandon all the reforms made over some very painful years in the Labour party, we would be consigned back to opposition.

  Patricia Hewitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Clear, Party

• Well I think all I would say on that is, when we were in opposition in Britain and Hawke and then Keating were in power here, Labor was in power here, we learnt a huge amount from the ALP’s experience here.

  Patricia Hewitt

  Topics in Experience, Power

  Tags in Think

• You don’t repair that relationship by sitting down and talking about trust or making promises. Actually, what rebuilds it is living it and doing things differently – and I think that is what is going to make the difference.

  Patricia Hewitt

  Topics in Trust

  Tags in Relationship, Promise

• You’ve got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that.

  Patricia Hewitt

  Topics in Economy

  Tags in Respond

Patricia Hewitt (19)

Birth:	2nd December, 1948
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Politician

About

Patricia Hope Hewitt is a British Labour Party politician, who served in the Cabinet until 2007, most recently as Secretary of State for Health. Hewitt's political career began in the 1970s as a high-profile left-winger and supporter of Tony Benn, even being classified by MI5 as an alleged communist sympathiser. After nine years as General Secretary of the National Council for Civil Liberties/Liberty, she became press secretary to Neil Kinnock, whom she assisted in the "modernisation" of the Labour Party. In 1997, she became the first female MP for Leicester West, a safe Labour seat, which she represented for thirteen years.

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