Rory Stewart Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Being a backbench MP is a bit of an anti-climax for a superhero.”

“I did stuff for three years in Kabul that I found exciting, and a lot of that was fixing roofs, talking about sewage installation.”

“I had a lot of romantic notions about what it would mean to cross Asia by foot.”

“I like connecting to places by foot, and I'm interested in experiencing how somewhere like Crieff connects to somewhere like London.”

“I want to 'normalise' myself. I would love to have a family.”

“I'm not good at explaining why I walked across Afghanistan.”

“It was a bit of a surprise when I became a Tory MP. My friends said it was a stupid idea.”

“The world isn't one way or another. Things can be changed very, very rapidly by someone with sufficient confidence, sufficient knowledge and sufficient authority.”

“I don't know much about Britain. I've been working overseas for most of my adult life. So I'd like to see what sort of problems there really are here. It's a question of asking, 'Where are we going, how purposeful are we?' And see if there's anything that can be done to find possibilities for change.”

“I found that Scottishness and Englishness are actually strong, instinctive things, whatever the historical reasons. Even the accent changes - just two inches across the border.”