There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth.
Quote by Lucy Powell
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There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth.
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Lucy Powell Quotes
- Being out and about talking to residents and representing their views is, in my view, as important to politics as the grandstanding that takes place in Westminster.
- Today the demands are for even higher standards in the quality of care, for greater flexibility and convenience in treatment times, and for more prevention through screening and health checks.
- These are tough times and under this Tory-led government many people in Manchester are suffering and getting left behind. If elected I will use all my energy, skills, experience and knowledge to stand up for our communities and get things done for the better.
- Although my seat is a contest between Labour and the Lib Dems, it could well make the difference between a Labour and a Tory government at the next election. In terms of international development, this choice is a very clear one.
- Some argue that now isn't the time to push the green agenda - that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem - high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today's financial difficulties.
- It's not a matter of if economies around the world becoming low-carbon, but when and how: through struggle and strife or through advancement and progressive leadership. Larry Elliot described it today as the 'Green New Deal.' It's a leadership we in Britain can provide, and from which our economy can benefit.
- The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds.
- What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power.
- Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.
- Team GB's success at the Beijing Olympics can, in part, be said to have been made in Manchester. For example, all the cycling medal winners trained at Manchester's velodrome, the National Cycling Centre.
Best Quotes
- Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.
- All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.
- When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
- I think I'm a bit less inhibited, and not thinking too much before speaking. It's not about being shameful, I'm just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing, and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear.
- I want to light the lights of patriotism.
- Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.
- Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.
- I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.
- Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
- Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.