Democratic Deficit Quotes by John Bercow

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John Bercow has 29 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• 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…
• 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…
• 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.

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