Nick Clegg Quotes

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• For far too long the world's poorest people have seen no benefit from the vast natural resources in their own backyards. It is time to…
• When I became leader, I made very clear I was not going to choose the easy life. I have always taken risks. I don't like…
• One thing I have frankly decided is that when it comes to political reform we have two conservative parties in British politics. Both the Labour…
• Do I get up every morning and ask: am I doing the things that I believe in and am I doing them for the best…
• Actually, the curious thing is that the more you become a subject of admiration or loathing, the more you're examined under a microscope, the distance…
• You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue,…
• If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it's the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social…
• One of the big changes in politics has been because families, individuals, have felt worried, insecure... worried about the economy, worried about their jobs, worried…
• Voters tell politicians what they want through the ballot box. Constantly second-guessing them by speculating whether the parties should gang up on each other misses…
• Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult things that it does.
• I am quite strict as a dad but I don't want to be censorious.
• I think that the days when newspaper barons could basically click their fingers and governments would snap to attention have gone.
• I'm very lucky. I am one of those people who is able to go home, shut the front door and completely focus on the kids.
• My head spins. One moment I'm told I'm too edgy, then people say I'm too angry, then that I show too much passion... make your…
• Our Sheffield and London homes are worth well over a million but the bank owns most of them - we are mortgaged up to the…
• Politics is a highly tribal business.
• The Labour Party has become consumed by collective bile towards... the Liberal Democrats. That portrays a rather nasty arrogance.
• What we should be doing in the EU as a whole is more economic integration in the single market, rather than less.
• Although I am a young leader, I actually came to it strangely quite late. I have a different perspective, partly because of my family, partly…
• Grown-up politicians talk to each other across party lines. Over the last few weeks I have had lengthy conversations with Ed Miliband, David Miliband, with…

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