“Liberalism is a really old British tradition and it has a completely different attitude towards the individual and the relationship between the individual and the state than the collectivist response of Labour, and particularly Old Labour, does.”
— Nick Clegg
Author: Nick Clegg
Category: relationship
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“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.”
— Nick Clegg
Author: Nick Clegg
Category: politics
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“Politics is a highly tribal business.”
— Nick Clegg
Author: Nick Clegg
Category: business
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“Liberal Democrats in government will not follow the last Labour government by sounding the retreat on the protection of civil liberties in the United Kingdom. It continues to be essential that our civil liberties are safeguarded, and that the state is not given the powers to snoop on its citizens at will.”
— Nick Clegg
Author: Nick Clegg
Category: government
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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.”
— Nick Clegg
Author: Nick Clegg
Category: government
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“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.”
— Nick Clegg
Author: Nick Clegg
Category: morning
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“I am a passionate believer in freedom of speech. I would not support anything which would impinge on aggressive robust freedom of the British press, but when things go wrong and there has been outright illegality, there should be proper accountability.”
— Nick Clegg
Author: Nick Clegg
Category: freedom
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“Although I am a young leader, I actually came to it strangely quite late. I have a different perspective, partly because of my family, partly because of what I did for ten years: negotiating trade deals, working out in Central Asia doing assistance projects.”
— Nick Clegg
Author: Nick Clegg
Category: family
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“Liberalism is a really old British tradition and it has a completely different attitude towards the individual and the relationship between the individual and the state than the collectivist response of Labour, and particularly Old Labour, does.”
— Nick Clegg
Author: Nick Clegg
Category: attitude
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“The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history and geography, we are a European nation.”
— Nick Clegg
Author: Nick Clegg
Category: history
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“Politics is a highly tribal business.”
— Nick Clegg
Author: Nick Clegg
Category: politics
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