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British Politician Inspirational Quotes (1209)

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Sexism in politics is nothing new when you're standing for election. But don't stand for election and it's almost as bad. Shockingly, David Cameron thought it acceptable to claim this week that my decision not to run for the Labour leadership was because my husband, Ed Balls, stopped [me] from standing.
Yvette Cooper
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Gordon Brown promised to abolish boom and bust. He has kept half his promise.
William Hague
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You are more likely to be treated by a migrant in the NHS than you are to be behind them in the queue.
Liz Kendall
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The Muslim religion is so unreformed since it was created that nowhere in the Muslim world has there been any real advance in science, or art or literature, or technology in the last 500 years.
Norman Tebbit
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Women have worked hard starved in prison given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.
Ellen Wilkinson
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New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated our precise circumstances. How he was possible, I still don't understand but there isn't a day I'm not grateful that he speaks to me in my own language.
Daniel Hannan
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I'm a first-past-the-post person, and always have been.
Theresa May
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MRSA, which is a kind of super bug mutant, is killing 10,000 people a year in Britain
George Galloway
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I've supported Jeremy Corbyn all the way along because I think that was the right thing to do. I've reluctantly reached the conclusion that his position is untenable.
Ed Miliband
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It is clearly important for all leadership candidates to be open and transparent about their tax affairs. I was very happy to publish mine today, and hope others will follow suit.
Theresa May
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We say here that if you fall down in the United States, the ambulance man must feel for your wallet before he feels for your pulse.
George Galloway
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The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.
Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
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White people love playing 'divide & rule'. We should not play their game.
Diane Abbott
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You can't win with some people. If you're not in government, you're criticised for being not serious. If you are in government, you're criticised for wanting power. That's the Labour party's line of attack, and it's a bit ridiculous.
Vince Cable
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I got a tooth bust by somebody who decided they didn't like me and I thought the moustache hid a scar on my lip. It's true that people were told facial hair was not appreciated by the British public, but I just decided to keep the moustache.
Bob Ainsworth
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If the basis of trust between the Prime Minister and her Defence Secretary no longer exists, there is no place for me with honour in such a Cabinet.
Michael Heseltine
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In my view what you can't argue for is a system that is neither decisive nor proportional and can be indecisive and disproportionate at the same time.
William Hague
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There's only one growth strategy: work hard.
William Hague
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I didn't come from a traditional Tory background it was urban and metropolitan.
George Osborne
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I stay on terra firma: the more firm, the less terror.
Ann Widdecombe
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I think we woefully failed to connect Britain to the growing Chinese economy in the previous decade, and I have sought to remedy that. China is now the sixth biggest trading partner with the UK. We have attracted now the lion's share of Chinese investment that is going into Europe.
George Osborne
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Taxpayers will not stand for - nor should they - the funding of poster sites, leaflets or advertising. What people will support is funding for political education, for training, for party organization.
Peter Hain
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As the prospect of a Tory government gets nearer, many traditional Labour voters - some who switched away in recent times and many who stayed at home - seem more determined to prevent that happening.
Lucy Powell
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You have to have as many defences in place as you possibly can. But even then of course - and it's important to stress this - you cannot guarantee being able to prevent every attack or every kind of attack.
William Hague
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