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“What is Parliament for if it is not to be a means to make ministers accountable for the services for which they are responsible.” quote by Michael Howard — Download Open image

“What is Parliament for if it is not to be a means to make ministers accountable for the services for which they are responsible.”

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We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation.

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There is only one opinion poll that I am interested in and that is the one that will take place on election day.

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A common language is the most obvious binding element in any society.

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I believe abortion should be available to everyone, but the law should be changed. In the past I voted for a restriction to 22…

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We're not saying, 'We're politicians, trust us.' We know you don't trust us.

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I will never stand again for the leadership of the Conservative Party.

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I am happy to debate the past with the Prime Minister... I have a big dossier on his past, and I did not even…

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People often of masterful intelligence, trained usually in law or economics or perhaps in political science, who have led their governments into disastrous decisions…

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So long as the international community consists of sovereign states, war between them remains a possibility, of which all governments have to take reasonable…

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We must rediscover the habit of thinking the best of each other

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The true use of history, whether civil or military, is not to make man clever for the next time, it is to make him…

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I make no apologies for any inconsistencies or contradictions in my essays. Those who do not change their minds in the course of a…

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Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul will be consigned to eternal torment in the never-ending subterranean barbecue if you fail to follow the whacky edicts of one particular set of puckered dogwhistles or another. You may recall from the great movie Strange…

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Obviously, if you don't love life, you can't enjoy an oyster.

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If I don't have pressure, I don't function.

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If you restore a car, and you're making money, then you're doing it wrong.

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I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars, the houses - that's not the American dream. That's the booby prize, in the end. Those are the booby prizes. And if you fall for them - if, when you achieve them, you believe that this…

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If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.

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If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding war, why we need to cut the military budget by 50%, why we need to bring back our troops scattered overseas, the police force of the world, in over a hundred countries, something like eight hundred…

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