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British Politician Inspirational Quotes (1209)

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I have come, reluctantly, to the conclusion that Boris [Johnson] cannot provide the leadership or build the team for the task ahead.
Michael Gove
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I'm not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I'm the only one who's questioned about it.
Diane Abbott
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They say that politics is show business for ugly people, but as I always crack, what would I know about that? I like a challenge
George Galloway
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The green shoots of economic spring are appearing once again.
Norman Lamont
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A small man intoxicated by being allowed to run around with the big, aggressive, powerful boys after so many years as a corduroy-clad peacenik.
George Galloway
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The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.
Vince Cable
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I will not allow a Delia Smith cookbook in my house! It's all so precise with Delia, and it makes cooking seem so inaccessible.
Theresa May
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I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change.
Francis Maude
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History provides no precise guidelines.
Douglas Hurd
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It's moving in the right direction. It was in decline under the previous administration.
John Prescott
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Achieving climate security must be the core of foreign policy. All of us have to pick up the pace.
Margaret Beckett
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My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.
Paddy Ashdown
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If . . . a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should . . . gain ground, there is no estimating the effects on public morals, and the consequent influence on our political welfare.
William Wilberforce
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My father was a manual worker.
Diane Abbott
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Having established that good ideas do indeed come in from the cold, start on the fringes and become mainstream, can we make any predictions about what the next move will be?
Nigel Farage
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The worst thing for worker's is their bosses business going out of business.
Sadiq Khan
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Chicken masala is now Britain's true national dish, not only because it is the most popular, but because it is a perfect illustration of the way Britain absorbs and adapts external influences.
Robin Cook
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Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.
Ed Miliband
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It would be disastrous if bad planning policy meant that today's new developments become tomorrow's climate slums
Tim Yeo
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Margaret Thatcher was beyond argument a great Prime Minister. Her tragedy is that she may be remembered less for the brilliance of her many achievements than for the recklessness with which she later sought to impose her own increasingly uncompromising views.
Geoffrey Howe
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With the right support, a child growing up in a dysfunctional household, who was destined for a lifetime on benefits could be put on an entirely different track - one which sees them move into fulfilling and sustainable work. In doing so, they will pull themselves out of poverty.
Iain Duncan Smith
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Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.
William Hague
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The public want honesty from their politicians. Not showy gimmicks.
Theresa May
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Nothing in politics is ever so good or as bad as it first appears.
Edward Boyle, Baron Boyle of Handsworth
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