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You only have words, and you take actions to get your words heard

Tony Blair to Alastair Campbell, taken from Prelude to Power.
“We’re in opposition and when you’re the opposition leader there is not much you can do. You can’t make decisions that change people’s lives. You only have words, and you take actions to get your words heard. Your policies are words because you are not in a position to put them into practice. And while that is so, and while the media are the vehicle by which our words and communicated and analysed, we have to influence them as much as we can”

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One Response to “You only have words, and you take actions to get your words heard”

  1. Gary Thomason says:
    April 14, 2011 at 12:11 pm

    Hopefully one of these days the voice of the working people will be heard with the use of new media and the people in power will actually understand what we want. Unfortunately a lot of the time leaders have ‘big ideas’ but the reality of most of these ideas are too costly to follow through.