John Bercow Quotes & Sayings

“I'm not in the business of warning people.”

“A legislature cannot be effective while suffering from public scorn.”

“There's no point in worrying about things you can't influence.”

“Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.”

“For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman amateurs.”

“I don't think that people are disinterested or uninterested in politics. I think very often they are disengaged from the formal political process. To some extent they are suspicious or even despairing of formal politics as a means to give expression and effect to what they want.”

“Fairness is not about statistical equality.”

“There are people who are just very, very sniffy and snobby and have always sort of looked down their noses at me.”

“It's a cowardly form of politics to use my spouse to beat me.”

“Possibly the fact that I was physically quite feeble, a relatively short little fellow, attracted me to that idea of a very authoritative and aggressive version of Conservative politics.”