How could I get up there and say, 'People, we've got to do better,' when I was the poster child for everything that was wrong? I've always believed leaders don't ask others to do what they're unwilling to do.
[On Richard M. Nixon:] Americans began with a president who couldn't tell a lie and now they have one who can't tell the truth.
Margot [Hentoff] dislikes Bill Clinton because he's totally untrustworthy, and you really ought to have some faith in whoever's going to be your president.
I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister.
What is important is a leader who can be trusted.
Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
I want to emphasize that character in our leaders does matter.
I'm quite optimistic when it comes to the capacity of our people to have an honest discussion about what's really going on. What do you think John McCain's candidacy was about? And the early days of Bill Bradley's candidacy? People are hungry for a genuine, no-spin set of ideas and truths. They want their leaders to tell it like it is. There is a great demand for this. Politicians continually underestimate the ability of the American public to understand what's happening to them and what the real choices are.
The public wants to know that their political leaders will stay true to the promise made to them that Brexit means Brexit.
