John Prescott Quotes

• It's great to be back on terra cotta

  John Prescott

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• The Green Belt is a Labour achievement - and we mean to build on it.

  John Prescott

  Mean, Achievement, Green

  "Passing Comment". The Times, January 31, 1998.

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• There was only one punch. Tony Blair rang me and he said 'Are you OK?' and I said 'Yes', and he said 'Well, what happened?' and I said 'I was just carrying out your orders. You told us to connect with the electorate, so I did.

  John Prescott

  Order, Blair, Said

  "As David Cameron poses with blacked up dancers - the worst political PR blunders" by Simon Keegan, www.mirror.co.uk. October 14, 2014.

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• Because of the security reasons for one thing and, second, my wife doesn't like to have her hair blown about. Have you got another silly question?

  John Prescott

  Silly, Hair, Wife

  "Prescott walks it like he talks it". news.bbc.co.uk. September 30, 1999.

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• Improving the quality of life for people of this country is perhaps the most important duty of Government

  John Prescott

  Love, Life, Family

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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

  Sick, Feelings, Chocolate

  John Prescott (2008). “Prezza: My Story: Pulling No Punches”

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• I'm going to introduce you to a revolutionary thought - you can go slower and get there quicker. And that's to do with flow. As soon as you made it two lanes and brought in the 70 (mph) and 50 (mph), you got there quicker. It meant the flow of the traffic was better, there were less accidents, less deaths, I think that's an important factor.

  John Prescott

  Thinking, Mph, Two

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• My roots, my background and the way I act is working class, but it would be hypsocritical to say I'm anything else than middle class now.

  John Prescott

  Class, Roots, Would Be

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• Down in the south, it's how we find the brownfield sites without taking too much land take to meet the tremendous demand for housing, and that's what I've done.

  John Prescott

  Land, Done, Demand

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• I don't get a fair whack, I don't pursue vendettas or punch people on the nose.

  John Prescott

  People, Noses, Violence

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• What we are beginning to witness is a whole new set of rules for economics, based on rationing resources.

  John Prescott

  Energy, Environment, Economics

  "UN climate change deal needs more sacrifices by West, John Prescott warns" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. August 7, 2009.

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• The only break I ever took was to eat. That's all I did. Work, and then quickly eat something. It became my main pleasure, having access to my comfort food.

  John Prescott

  Comfort, Pleasure, Break

  John Prescott (2008). “Prezza: My Story: Pulling No Punches”

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• I can tell you I'm pretty middle-class.

  John Prescott

  Class, Middle, Middle Class

  BBC Radio 4 "Today" interview, April 12, 1996.

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• My department is not too big for one man, because I'm Superman.

  John Prescott

  Men, Bigs, Department

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• We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent.

  John Prescott

  Believe, House, Pounds

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• Perhaps if England and Scotland together had one team we could at least beat the Germans.

  John Prescott

  Team, Scotland, Together

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• If you look at Newcastle or Gateshead, even over twenty years, even with the previous administration, it has moved quite remarkably in transforming itself.

  John Prescott

  Years, Twenties, Looks

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• In a sense, what we do with the regional development agencies is to give them resources to look at the deficiencies in the economy in the regional areas, so they can address themselves to that.

  John Prescott

  Agency, Giving, Looks

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• I was the one that brought it in, but not only for the north-east, for every area so we can develop all the regional economies, lift up the national productivity, get greater wealth and share it more evenly.

  John Prescott

  East, Wealth, Economy

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• He made an enormous contribution to British politics in opposition and in government [on Robin Cook]

  John Prescott

  Government, Robins, British Politics

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• Labour economic stability has replaced Tory boom and bust

  John Prescott

  Economic, Stability, Labour

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• I've always felt very proud of Wales and being Welsh. People are a bit surprised when I say I'm Welsh. I was born in Wales, went to school in Wales and my mother was Welsh. I'm Welsh. It's my place of birth, my country.

  John Prescott

  Mother, Country, School

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• This was released I think in February and so it is a great deal of fuss being made, it hasn't in fact been given public release, it was released in February.

  John Prescott

  Thinking, Facts, February

  "Prescott Triumphs on Slippery Slopes of Syntax" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2004.

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• When I see that man on the telly - 'Are you thinking what I'm thinking?' No! I'm definitely not! I find most of it quite offensive!

  John Prescott

  Men, Thinking, Offensive

  "Election 2005: Aggressive and Voluble - but the Real Thing" by Oliver Burkeman, April 21, 2005.

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• There's no excuse, it's just an opportunity that presented in a limited way and that happened and as soon as the press rang me I didn't deny it I just said 'that's it' and I had to go home and explain it.

  John Prescott

  Home, Opportunity, Way

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