What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power.
Quote by Lucy Powell
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What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power.
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Lucy Powell Quotes
- For us political activists and candidates, the morning after any election is a mix of emotions - the personal and the immediate, the culmination of your own recent campaigning efforts and the fortunes of your party and the success or otherwise of what you stand for and believe in.
- 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.
- As the prospect of a Tory government gets nearer, many traditional Labour voters - some who switched away in recent times and many who stayed at home - seem more determined to prevent that happening.
- 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.
- I have run a general election campaign pregnant and ran Ed Miliband's leadership campaign commuting to London with a new baby so I already have my system set up.
- We need to dig deep and give people a reason to be optimistic just as Obama is doing in America. Because in the same way that outcome of the U.S. elections will change the course of events there and around the world, so too do politics here in Britain.
- 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.
- What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power.
- There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth.
- It's become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement, and Labour achievement even less so. And it's positively uncouth to be proud of something that this Labour government is doing. So, slam me for saying so, but I'm really proud of the NHS.
Best Quotes
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- A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
- In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.
- Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
- I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
- We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
- I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
- I think you can tell the food is close to my heart, too, because I'm doing what I do best.
- We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
- Normally, I love to go to the movies and when I see a character portrayed by different actors at different ages, it kind of pops a little bit for me. It brings me out of the movie experience. Now we have the technology to cure that.