Best Quotes Of The Day

Nick Clegg

Nicholas William Peter Clegg is a British politician who has served in several posts in the UK government including Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Lord President of the Council, Leader of the Liberal Democrats and Member of Parliament. He has also served as a Member of the European Parliament.

Clegg attended the University of Cambridge, the University of Minnesota as well as the College of Europe. He is fluent in five European languages and has held many jobs, including ski instructor and award-winning journalist at the Financial Times.

Clegg has been a contributor to many books and pamphlets on politics.

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"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."

Topic(s): Diet

"Joining the Liberal Party was a no-brainer for me… And when you are a young man, you don’t get a calculator out saying, ‘Am I going to get to power?’ You get propelled forward by idealism."

Topic(s): Wedding

"One of the big changes in politics has been because families, individuals, have felt worried, insecure… worried about the economy, worried about their jobs, worried about their kids’ futures… actually the disconnect between the public and media discourse and people’s everyday concerns has become bigger not smaller."

Topic(s): Romantic

"I have got instincts that, I think, are very much in tune with people’s very keen sense to see something different. I did not dream of being in politics since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. I was not involved in student politics, or not in that partisan way."

Topic(s): Romantic

"I didn’t become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. It’s not the be all and end all for us. There are other very, very key ambitions in politics, not least social mobility and life chances, that I care about as passionately if not more."

Topic(s): Men

"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."

Topic(s): Family

"When I became leader, I made very clear I was not going to choose the easy life. I have always taken risks. I don’t like comfort-zone politics."

Topic(s): Famous

"One thing I have frankly decided is that when it comes to political reform we have two conservative parties in British politics. Both the Labour and Conservative parties have constantly and repeatedly failed to honour promises they have made about reforming, cleaning, modernising our clapped-out system."

Topic(s): Business

"One thing I’ve very quickly learned is that if you wake up every morning worrying about what’s in the press, you would go completely and utterly potty."

Topic(s): Change

"Do I get up every morning and ask: am I doing the things that I believe in and am I doing them for the best possible motives? Yes. Unambiguously yes."

Topic(s): Computers

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