Backbenchers Quotes

• The best brains of the nation may be found on the last benches of the classroom.

  Abdul Kalam

  Inspirational, Brain, Benches

  181 Copy quote

• I wasn't the brightest kid in school. I was a backbencher troubling the frontbencher, and eventually I failed in my 10th grade. But then in higher secondary, there were only three people who got first division in arts, and I was one of them. So this tells you, where you put your mind and heart into, that's where you go.

  Shiv Khera

  Art, School, Kids

  67 Copy quote

• If there was a university degree for greed, you cunts would all get first-class honours.

  Paul Keating

  University Degrees, Class, Greed

  114 Copy quote

• Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he did actually shut up in the end.

  Anthony Holden

  Wings, Literature, Pressure

  34 Copy quote

• I have never believed in the Wizard of Oz theory of consulting, that I am all-knowing and all-seeing, and that everyone around me is kind of a backbencher

  David Axelrod

  Knowing, Wizards, Kind

  20 Copy quote

• The Prime Minister, a specialist in calling in the locksmith after the horses had fled - the whole herd in fact - and the barn in ruins, ended the week with a great raft of ethics proposals for cabinet, leadership candidates, backbenchers and lobbyists. I think it is more than fair to ask: Why wait for the middle of his third term to institute what the public would have welcomed at the beginning of his first?

  Rex Murphy

  Horse, Thinking, Waiting

  16 Copy quote

• ...a Conservative backbencher called Margaret Thatcher managed, despite front bench opposition, to get enacted her Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960, which was aimed at opening up council meetings to both press and public.

  Clive Ponting

  Opening Up, Benches, Body

  15 Copy quote