Predecessor Quotes

There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptionally vulnerable and damaged: more personal debt than any other major economy; a dangerously inflated property bubble; and a bloated banking sector behaving as masters, not the servants of the people.

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.

To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.

We come out of Jewish-refugee, Holocaust stock, which means that our predecessors fled and we learned that systems of power are vulnerable to corruption and can treat the defenseless in a destructive fashion.

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.