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British Politician Inspirational Quotes (1213)

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Bountiful as is the hand of Providence, its gifts are not so bestowed as to seduce us into indolence, but to rouse us to exertion.
William Wilberforce
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The time of reckoning will at length arrive. And when finallly summoned to the bar of God, to give an account of our stewardship, what plea can we have to urge in our defense, if we remain willingly, and obstinately ignorant of the way which leads to life, with such transcendent means of knowing it, and such urgent motives to its pursuit?
William Wilberforce
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You still hear some people speaking as though we could decide whether the Common market existed or not.
Hugh Gaitskell
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No country which has cricket as one of its national games has yet gone communist.
Woodrow Wyatt
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If we're not enthusiastic, we can't get things done. If we're over-enthusiastic, we run into the danger of being fanatical.
Woodrow Wyatt
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I cannot bear the language TV chefs use - they don't seem able to look at a plate of vegetables without accusing it of sexual activity.
Ann Widdecombe
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They [British people] told us to restore democratic control of immigration policy and to spend their money on national priorities such as health, education and science instead of giving it to Brussels.
Michael Gove
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We all support the idea of a strong marriage, we all clearly like a good party. Call us hopeless romantics, call it the triumph of hope over experience - most of us think when people love each other and want to make that long-term commitment, that is a wonderful thing. So why would we stop a loving couple getting married just because they are gay?
Yvette Cooper
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We must educate our sons to save our daughters
Yvette Cooper
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So on the Tuesday night deadline, while Abu Qatada was appealing to European Court judges, the Home Secretary, who thought the deadline was Monday night, was partying with X Factor judges. When the Home Secretary is accused of not knowing what day of the week it is, confusion and chaos have turned into farce.
Yvette Cooper
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I'm a West Indian mum and West Indian mums will go to the wall for their children.
Diane Abbott
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There is no reason why the US and the UK cannot have close relations.
Diane Abbott
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Our Poets make us laugh at Tragœdy, And with their Comoedies they make us cry.
Theresa Villiers
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We both [with Donald Trump] share a desire to ensure that governments are working for everyone and particularly that governments are working for ordinary working families and working-class families. And I think that's important. That's what I've spoken about.
Theresa May
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We may not like some of the things that Donald Trump says, and I certainly don't like some of the things that he's said in the past. But I do respect the fact that he stood on a platform which he is now delivering. He is going to go down in history as being roundly condemned for being the only politician to deliver on his promises.
Nigel Evans
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We've got to demonstrate why European unity and integration, our vast single market, our single currency, equip us with the strength to embrace globalization.
Peter Mandelson
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Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to leave for our kids.
Ed Miliband
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When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark corners of the room and are bombarded with latest gadgets. Things replace parental standards.
Diane Abbott
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Being an MP is a good job, the sort of job all working-class parents want for their children -- clean, indoors and no heavy lifting. What could be nicer?
Diane Abbott
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This is what happens in prisons I think you're not giving the prisoners the credit for how ingenious they are.
Philip Davies
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She thought about how marvelous is would be to have a wife keeping the house in order, the meals on the table. At the same time it seemed ridiculously unfair that she could never have a wife. In fact, if she married, she would be expected to be the wife.
Robin Cook
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I can foresee no circumstance in which I would allow my name to be put forward for the leadership of the Conservative Party.
Michael Heseltine
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There is no hunt in Thanet, nor is there a fox problem. There is no Tooting hunt, no Wandsworth hunt and no Clapham hunt, but we can see foxes on their streets at night. If we want to control vermin we should work out how to deal with that problem. The idea that foxhunting controls the fox population is arrant nonsense.
Roger Gale
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Provided that the City of London remains, as it is at present, the clearing-house of the world, any other nation may be its workshop.
Joseph Chamberlain
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