John Bercow famous quotes

03-24-2025

A legislature cannot be effective while suffering from public scorn.
-- John Bercow

#Suffering #Legislature #Scorn
If you asked me if I'd rather be Speaker or a very senior minister, I'd say Speaker.
-- John Bercow

#Senior #Ministers #Speakers
It is quite wrong for party conferences to be used as an excuse for the Commons not to sit. Conferences could be held at weekends.
-- John Bercow

#Party #Weekend #Excuse
It's a cowardly form of politics to use my spouse to beat me.
-- John Bercow

#Use #Beats #Form
Lying to a committee is a very grave abuse, and there ought to be a clear punishment.
-- John Bercow

#Lying #Punishment #Abuse
One consistent thing in an otherwise inconsistent career is that I've always been passionate about parliament.
-- John Bercow

#Careers #Passionate #Parliament
Sally is my wife, but not my chattel or my property.
-- John Bercow

#Wife #My Wife #Property
The Conservatives must realise that being sceptical is different from being phobic in what is an interdependent world.
-- John Bercow

#Different #World #Realising
The prime minister's job is to captain his team, his party and his government.
-- John Bercow

#Jobs #Team #Party
There are people who are just very, very sniffy and snobby and have always sort of looked down their noses at me.
-- John Bercow

#People #Noses
When I first started out in politics I was, what you might describe as, a hard right Conservative.
-- John Bercow

#Might #Firsts #Conservative
If someone is being very cheeky, it can be quite fun to deal with that situation.
-- John Bercow

#Fun #Cheeky #Situation
I've never been much given to little social cliques.
-- John Bercow

#Littles #Social #Clique
I'm supremely uninterested as to what is written in many of the newspapers.
-- John Bercow

#Newspapers #Uninterested
There's no point in worrying about things you can't influence.
-- John Bercow

#Worry #Influence
Fairness is not about statistical equality.
-- John Bercow

#Fairness
Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.
-- John Bercow

#Men #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.
-- John Bercow

#Running #Long #House
I don't want to crawl over the entrails of past disputes.
-- John Bercow

#Past #Want #Disputes
I never aspired to be Speaker simply so I could say, 'I am the Speaker of the House of Commons,' and tell my children that.
-- John Bercow

#Children #House #My Children
I pride myself on being courteous to people, and trying to fashion good relations.
-- John Bercow

#Fashion #Pride #People
I think the record shows that as Speaker, I have taken the lead in cleaning up politics.
-- John Bercow

#Taken #Thinking #Records
I'm not in the business of warning people.
-- John Bercow

#People #Warning
I'm not psychic. I cannot know what is in the mind of particular public figures.
-- John Bercow

#Psychics #Mind #Figures
I am seeking every day to restore faith in Parliament - to ensure we have a House of Commons which is representative, effective and reconnected to the people we serve.
-- John Bercow

#People #House #Parliament

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