Mps Quotes - Page 2

• Being an MP feeds your vanity and starves your self- respect.

  Matthew Parris

  Vanity, Self, Self Respect

  1994 InTheTimes, 9 Feb.

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• It is my saddest day as an MP when my party brings in a bill which I'm fundamentally opposed to. I'm very sad my party has brought this in without any democratic mandate.

  Peter Bone

  Party, Gay, Bills

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• Strong views exist on both sides but I believe MPs voting for gay people being able to marry too, is a step forward for our country.

  David Cameron

  Country, Strong, Believe

  Twitter post from Feb 05, 2013

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• This is a proud day and an important step forward in the fight for equality in Britain. The overwhelming majority of Labour MPs supported this change to make sure marriage reflects the value we place on long-term, loving relationships whoever you love.

  Ed Miliband

  Fighting, Gay, Long

  "Gay marriage debate in quotes". www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2013.

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• People feel that they're being required to meet all sorts of regulations and rules and requirements in their areas of work and MPs are not imposing those sort of restrictions on themselves.

  Theresa May

  People, Regulation, Requirements

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Conservative Party is not honouring the commitment to Lords reform and, as a result, part of our contract has now been broken. Clearly I cannot permit a situation where Conservative rebels can pick and choose the parts of the contract they like, while Liberal Democrat MPs are bound to the entire agreement.

  Nick Clegg

  Party, Commitment, Agreement

  "Coalition deadlock as Nick Clegg and David Cameron veto each other" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2012.

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• Each day more coalition MPs in seats outside the South East come out against George Osborne's regional pay cut plans, and Vince Cable now claims they are dead.

  Frances O'Grady

  Cutting, East, Each Day

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• As a relatively young woman - I'm 33 - I hope to one day have a family and already have commitments. If and when I'm elected as an MP, I would face a choice: take my family with me to London each week or be apart for four, maybe five, nights a week.

  Lucy Powell

  Commitment, Night, Ifs And

  "Despite Sarah Palin, the glass ceiling for women in politics remains" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2008.

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• Quite apart from the problem of the vote, it's bad for the image of Parliament that people take the trouble to come up and are not allowed to see their MP.

  Vince Cable

  People, Vote, Problem

  "Lib Dems and Galloway defend absences" by Matthew Tempest and Ros Taylor, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2005.

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• Sovereignty rests with me as an English MP and that's the way it will stay.

  Tony Blair

  Way, Sovereignty

  The Scotsman, April 4, 1997.

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• The next General Election isn't about electing yet another Labour or Tory MP to join the hundreds of other Labour or Tory MPs in London. It will be about electing a candidate who will put solving people's problems before scoring political points. Someone who will fight for the future of our communities here in Clwyd West.

  Llyr Huws Gruffydd

  Fighting, People, Community

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• Who could be luckier than to be paid fairly well, which to be honest MPs are, for pursuing their hobby.? That's what politics is.

  David Penhaligon

  Hobbies, Politics, Honest

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• The only quality needed for an MP is the ability to write a good letter.

  Harold MacMillan

  Writing, Political, Quality

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• The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP, they have run out of better ideas.

  Boris Johnson

  Running, Ideas, People

  "What's wrong with 40 Liverpool Road?". Daily Telegraph, September 18, 2003.

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• I'm not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I'm the only one who's questioned about it.

  Diane Abbott

  Children, School, Labour

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• When in that House MPs divide/If they've a brain and cerebellum, too/They've got to leave that brain outside/And vote just as their leaders tell 'em to.

  W. S. Gilbert

  House, Leader, Political

  Arthur Sullivan, W. S. Gilbert (2008). “The Savoy Operas: The Complete Gilbert and Sullivan: The Complete Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.457, Penguin UK

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• Family law is institutionally anti-male. I've been lobbying MPs, and I'm not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Giving Up, Law, Males

  "Louis de Bernières: My family values". Interview with Anita Sethi, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister.

  David Blunkett

  Hypnosis, Cities, Leader

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• An MP is the only job where you have 70,000 employers, and only one employee.

  Tony Benn

  Jobs, Employers, Employee

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• These modern means of communication are one reason why I recently opposed the Government's decision to grant MPs a new communications allowance. With new technology giving us the opportunity to communicate directly with voters very cheaply, why did Labour MPs vote for a £10,000 allowance to tell voters what a good job they do?

  Theresa May

  Jobs, Communication, Mean

  "Theresa May answers your questions". ConservativeHome Interview, conservativehome.blogs.com. May 18, 2007.

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• I do love the idea of being able to take an MP to court for lying. There are ways and means of taking an MP to court just now, but it is very difficult.

  Mark Thomas

  Lying, Mean, Ideas

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• If we have to build the nation we have to start from the villages. I will present a complete blueprint of "Sānsad Adharsh Grām Yojana" where each MP, must establish model villages in their constituencies.

  Narendra Modi

  India, Village, Blueprints

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• Whatever position we may rise to, be it of MP, CM or PM, nothing can teach us the way villages can.

  Narendra Modi

  Motivation, Pms, Village

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• Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana is not a scheme that can be run by money. This scheme has to run with people's participation under the guidance of the MPs.

  Narendra Modi

  Running, Motivation, People

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• The MPs are not adopting villages; it's the villages that are adopting the MPs.

  Narendra Modi

  Empowerment, India, Village

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