Nick Clegg Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• For far too long the world's poorest people have seen no benefit from the vast natural resources in their own backyards. It is time to end the injustice where ordinary people are silent witnesses, left to suffer without basic services, as the profits from their countries' assets are hidden and plundered by corrupt regimes.

  Nick Clegg

  Country, Long, People

  "Nick Clegg announces support for new transparency law" by Juliette Jowit, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.

• On the BSkyB bid, Rupert Murdoch is now in town in London seeking to sort things out. I would simply say to him, look how people feel about this. Look how the country has reacted with revulsion to the revelations. So do the decent and sensible thing and reconsider, think again, about your bid for BSkyB.

  Nick Clegg

  Country, Thinking, People

  "BSkyB: Clegg calls for Murdoch to 'do the decent thing' and drop deal" by Polly Curtis, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2011.

• Tony Blair and Gordon Brown committed to John Major's spending envelopes in 1997. No-one said that Tony Blair and John Major were identical. This happens quite often that parties actually, despite all the sound and fury, agree on the overall need to make sure that we live within our means as a country.

  Nick Clegg

  Country, Party, Mean

• You've got some very powerful countries: Poland, the United Kingdom, Sweden and others who have a genuine desire to see the euro zone straighten itself out. It's good for all of us, whether you're in the euro zone or not, to make sure that it doesn't lead to a fracturing.

  Nick Clegg

  Country, Powerful, Desire

• I totally rule out any arrangements with the SNP — in the same way I rule out any arrangements with Ukip - because there is no meeting point for me with one party that basically wants to pull our country to bits and another party that wants us to pull out of the EU. I would never recommend to the Liberal Democrats that we help establish a government which is basically on a life support system, where Alex Salmond could pull the plug any time he wants.

  Nick Clegg

  Life, Country, Party

  "Clegg dismisses any coalition deal with Labour involving SNP". www.ft.com. April 24, 2015.

• Most people in the country would think the diamond jubilee is a wonderful occasion for us to celebrate together as a community and as a nation. But I suspect that most people in the country would think, given that there is very little money around, that this probably would not be the top of their list of priorities for the use of scarce public resources.

  Nick Clegg

  Country, Thinking, Diamond Jubilee

  "'The haves and have yachts': Clegg blasts Gove's call for a new royal ship for the Queen as a Jubilee present". www.dailymail.co.uk. January 16, 2012.

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