Nick Clegg Quotes - Page 3

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• I firmly believe that the principles behind Contraction & Convergence provide the best long-term framework for a fair and equitable climate change mitigation policy

  Nick Clegg

  Believe, Long, Climate

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• Grown-up politicians talk to each other across party lines. Over the last few weeks I have had lengthy conversations with Ed Miliband, David Miliband, with Tony Blair, with Peter Mandelson... talking about Europe, talking about political reform.

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  Party, Talking, Europe

  "Nick Clegg: parents can use pension pots to help young people buy property" by Hélène Mulholland, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2012.

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• You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.

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  Blue, Media, Political

  "A year in the eye of the storm". Interview with Andrew Rawnsley, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2011.

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• Every time [Chris Bryant] asks a question I become more and more baffled why anyone would want to hack his phone and listen to his messages

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  Phones, Want, Messages

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• I think it is a simple statement of principle that in a democracy you should make your MPs work harder for your vote and try and get at least majority support in their local area, and that in a nutshell is what AV does.

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  Hard Work, Simple, Thinking

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• 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.

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  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.

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• Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult things that it does.

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  Government, Order, Needs

  The Economist interview, www.economist.com. March 11, 2010.

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• After the economic 9/11, we will face a new world order.

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  Order, World, Faces

  "Nick Clegg: After the economic 9/11, we will face a new world order". www.yorkshirepost.co.uk. October 14, 2008.

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• I totally accept that it's a legitimate criticism that when you are involved in the day-to-day scrum of government that what can get lost is the narrative, the hymn sheet the song that inspires and lifts people's sights.

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  Song, Government, Sight

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• [Ed Miliband]'s elevated personal abuse into a sort of strategy

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  Abuse, Strategy

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• The Labour Party has become consumed by collective bile towards... the Liberal Democrats. That portrays a rather nasty arrogance.

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  Party, Arrogance, Nasty

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• The caricature of what George Osborne is doing on the fiscal side is absurd. If you read some of the commentary, particularly from the left, you would think he was turning the clock back to the 1930s.

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  Thinking, Sides, Clock

  "Nick Clegg takes thorny path out of the Rose Garden". Interview with Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2012.

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• What I hope is in five years' time, I can go to the British people in the election and say: Lots of you doubted that coalition politics worked, but it has worked.

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  Years, People, Election

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• I care more about getting this right [NHS reform] than I do about getting it done.

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  Nhs, Reform, Done

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• I think that the days when newspaper barons could basically click their fingers and governments would snap to attention have gone.

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  Thinking, Government, Attention

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