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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult things that it does.
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I am quite strict as a dad but I don't want to be censorious.
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I think that the days when newspaper barons could basically click their fingers and governments would snap to attention have gone.
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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.
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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…
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Our Sheffield and London homes are worth well over a million but the bank owns most of them - we are mortgaged up to the…
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Politics is a highly tribal business.
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The Labour Party has become consumed by collective bile towards... the Liberal Democrats. That portrays a rather nasty arrogance.
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What we should be doing in the EU as a whole is more economic integration in the single market, rather than less.
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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…
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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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