Menzies Campbell Quotes

• The cause of the attack was not American foreign policy but an amoral disregard for human life.It is grotesque to suggest that a four-year-old girl, making her first and only flight in an aeroplane, should somehow bear responsibility for the actions of a government for whom she was never allowed the chance to grow up and vote either for or against.

  Menzies Campbell

  Girl, Growing Up, Responsibility

  "Key quotes from the Commons debate" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2001.

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• My priorities? The environment, the environment, the environment.

  Menzies Campbell

  Priorities, Environment

  "'My Priorities? The Environment, the Environment, the Environment'" by Michael White and Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. January 13, 2006.

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• Overall his period in office can only be characterised as a decade of missed opportunities in which the hopes of the British people for a new kind of politics were shattered [on Tony Blair]

  Menzies Campbell

  Opportunity, People, Office

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• In the target seats we have been going like a bomb and there is a great deal of confidence. I think there's going to be a great deal of regional variation throughout the UK.

  Menzies Campbell

  Thinking, Target, Bombs

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• We should be working towards a carbon-neutral Britain by 2050. We should be working towards the elimination of petrol-driven motor cars, we should be really radical in what we do - the urgency of the problem is really enormous

  Menzies Campbell

  Car, Problem, Driven

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• It can fairly be said of John Smith that he had all the virtues of a Scottish presbyterian, but none of the vices.

  Menzies Campbell

  Vices, Virtue, Scottish

  Menzies Campbell (2008). “Menzies Campbell: My Autobiography”

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• Under my leadership the Liberal Democrats would not be making polite interjections from the sidelines, we would be hammering on the doors of power.

  Menzies Campbell

  Doors, Would Be, Democrat

  Birmingham Post, January 21, 2006.

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