John Bercow Quotes
- A legislature cannot be effective while suffering from public scorn.
- Fairness is not about statistical equality.
- Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.
- For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman amateurs.
- I don't want to crawl over the entrails of past disputes.
- I never aspired to be Speaker simply so I could say, 'I am the Speaker of the House of Commons,' and tell my children that.
- I pride myself on being courteous to people, and trying to fashion good relations.
- I think the record shows that as Speaker, I have taken the lead in cleaning up politics.
- I'm not in the business of warning people.
- I'm not psychic. I cannot know what is in the mind of particular public figures.
- I'm supremely uninterested as to what is written in many of the newspapers.
- I've never been much given to little social cliques.
- If someone is being very cheeky, it can be quite fun to deal with that situation.
- If you asked me if I'd rather be Speaker or a very senior minister, I'd say Speaker.
- It is quite wrong for party conferences to be used as an excuse for the Commons not to sit. Conferences could be held at weekends.
- It's a cowardly form of politics to use my spouse to beat me.
- Lying to a committee is a very grave abuse, and there ought to be a clear punishment.
- One consistent thing in an otherwise inconsistent career is that I've always been passionate about parliament.
- Sally is my wife, but not my chattel or my property.
- The Conservatives must realise that being sceptical is different from being phobic in what is an interdependent world.