Quotes from Liz Kendall

I can't pretend to being particularly happy about Jeremy Corbyn being leader of the Labour party.

I always wanted to be a dancer. I danced for maybe 16 years. So I would have loved to have been a dancer in the past.

My parents are like many across Britain. Neither on the breadline, nor loaded, they were determined to give their daughter all that any of us can ask from our parents: love, security, ambition and hope.

My goal is to get power out of Westminster and into the hands of the people it affects. That means sharing power with those who have none and using national and local government to help people to help themselves and one another.

I am not going to be the sort of politician who does all that stuff about their private life.

We are a party that believes in dignity and respect for one another. We can't say that is what we want in the country if we don't behave like that ourselves.

We have to be as passionate about wealth creation, skills, life chances and world class education as we are about wealth distribution.

There's nothing progressive about spending more on servicing your debt than on educating your children.

We can't turn back and be the unelectable party of protest.

I don't want to protest. I want to get into power.

I'm proud to be feminist.

When it comes to public services, I am firmly on the side of the public.

I want every Labour Council to lead a revolution in opening horizons for pupils and making better educational chances everyone's business.

People are forged in the fire of their first political experience.

Some people think we can have everything we want without making any difficult decisions. They have forgotten what it takes to win. It is fantasy politics.

Europe itself needs to change fundamentally and focus on jobs and growth.

Parties always win when they set out a positive and optimistic and confident vision for the future, when they have a broad appeal.

I hated what Margaret Thatcher had done. How she'd taken jobs. I hated her divide and rule politics.

Being leader is a tough gig.

The NHS needs to change fundamentally. It's a fragmented service when it should be joined-up. It's a last-minute crisis intervention service when it should be about prevention. It's a sickness service when it should have promoting health as its core. Crucially, it doesn't do enough to help people to help themselves.

I like listening to Ken Clarke. He has had guts in taking his own party on on Europe - and I am a massive pro-European - and I think he stuck with what he believed in through thick and thin even when many have opposed him.

We have learned - or at least we should have - that seeing Islamist extremism purely as a reaction to what we do is fundamentally mistaken. Indeed that view - Western centric as it is - belittles the threat we face. It implies we can somehow opt out of this fight, that if we hide maybe they will leave us alone.

Can you imagine if it was like that: everything you're doing as you grow up you're wondering, 'What is that going to mean if I ever end up being a politician?' You wouldn't have anybody except ruthlessly ambitious automatons going into politics.

You do your best, you work hard for yourself, for your family and others.