John Bercow Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I don't want to crawl over the entrails of past disputes.”

“I pride myself on being courteous to people, and trying to fashion good relations.”

“I think the record shows that as Speaker, I have taken the lead in cleaning up politics.”

“I'm supremely uninterested as to what is written in many of the newspapers.”

“I've never been much given to little social cliques.”

“If someone is being very cheeky, it can be quite fun to deal with that situation.”

“One consistent thing in an otherwise inconsistent career is that I've always been passionate about parliament.”

“The prime minister's job is to captain his team, his party and his government.”

“I do strongly believe myself that members of the government who sit in the House of Lords should be accountable to the elected House because otherwise there is a democratic deficit, and that is wrong.”

“I'm not psychic. I cannot know what is in the mind of particular public figures.”