Started Thinking Quotes by Sam Gyimah

I started thinking about getting into politics when David Cameron became leader.

— Sam Gyimah

The astonishing thing for me is that I had a career before politics and I never thought about my colour.

— Sam Gyimah

A society in which people feel they have a legitimate right to stop someone expressing their views on campus simply because they are unfashionable…

— Sam Gyimah

Much of what we buy relies on products from the EU - purchases that British importers make in euros.

— Sam Gyimah

Parliament is relentless, it never stops.

— Sam Gyimah

At the Oxford Union I'd never debated before but I gave it a go.

— Sam Gyimah

Born in the UK, brought up in Ghana, it was a sort of childhood of hardship and difficulty.

— Sam Gyimah

Ever since Theresa May's premiership, I have become suspicious of the 'lectern moment'. That is when the prime minister steps outside Downing Street to…

— Sam Gyimah

One point leavers and remainers agree on is that if there had never been a referendum, and this deal had been proposed as the…

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The more painful incidents of racism I chose to forget, to suffer in silence, or use humour to deflect rather than confront. I didn't…

— Sam Gyimah

Brexit is an immensely complex national challenge encompassing issues from sovereignty and trade to security in an increasingly interdependent world.

— Sam Gyimah

I was born in the UK and brought up by my single mother in Ghana, where being black was unexceptional. As an adult, I…

— Sam Gyimah

The Tory Party only talks to Brexiteers. It almost demonises... It comes across as dismissive of those who are not.

— Sam Gyimah

The big thing in Ghana is a strong sense that if you failed in your education that was it. There was no system... to…

— Sam Gyimah

Leaving people worse off financially is a Brexit outcome nobody supports, whether they voted leave or remain.

— Sam Gyimah