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British Politician Inspirational Quotes (1209)

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Labour's constitutional blueprint is nothing less than a plan for the destruction of UK democracy.
John Redwood
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It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It's about health and safety regulations and green fines.
Nigel Farage
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Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool but we should not become its slaves.
Douglas Hurd
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Humankind has the science and technology to destroy itself or to provide prosperity for all. But while science offers us these opportunities, science will not make that choice for us. Only the moral power of a world acting as a community can
Margaret Beckett
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The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.
Michael Gove
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The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
Paddy Ashdown
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So what I did was stuff my face with anything around, any old rubbish, burgers, chocolate, crisps, fish and chips, loads of it, till I felt sick - but at least I'd had the pleasure of stuffing my face and feeling really full.
John Prescott
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What's crucial is that the IRA produce a credible statement that paramilitary and criminality activity is a thing of the past. That they are committed to a future which is exclusively peaceful and democratic.
Peter Hain
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You've got to stop whipping a dead horse sometime.
Jim Knight
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In good times, people turn to Left wing parties, in bad times, they say, well, possibly Left-wing parties can't make those tough decisions... We've got to buck that trend
Ed Miliband
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The British people rejected politics as usual and government as usual. They want and need a new approach to running this country.
Michael Gove
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What's now urgently needed [to stop environmental disaster] is the international political commitment to take action to avoid dangerous climate change.
David Miliband
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The science is getting worse faster than the politics is getting better.
David Miliband
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The liberty of the press would be an empty sound, and no man would venture to write on any subject, however, pure his purpose, without an attorney at one elbow and a counsel at the other. From minds thus subdued by the fear of punishment, there could issue no works of genius to expand the empire of human reason.
Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine
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We could not have parliamentary sovereignty with a European Parliament.
Hugh Gaitskell
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There are two traditions in Northern Ireland. There are two main religious denominations. But there is only one true moral denomination. And it wants peace.
David Trimble
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I'm not someone who dwells upon past events, taking the view that life is too short
Charles Kennedy
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If we leave the European Union, yes there will be bumps in the road, inevitably, but we will be in a better position to deal with them.
Michael Gove
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We do seem to bicker and bicker. Sometimes I feel we're like an old married couple, who think occasionally of murdering each other - but never of divorce.
Denis MacShane
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A high proportion of the population enjoys many of the 'luxuries' which until recently were considered the prerogative of the rich and the ordinary worker lives at what even two decades ago would have been considered in Britain a middle-class standard of life.
Anthony Crosland
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You can't defend the indefensible. Anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.
Diane Abbott
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That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids,' is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.
Iain Duncan Smith
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If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.
Nigel Farage
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The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.
George Osborne
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