Menzies Campbell quotes
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“The cause of the attack was not American foreign policy but an amoral disregard for human life.It is grotesque to suggest that a four-year-old girl, making her first and only flight in an aeroplane, should somehow bear responsibility for the actions of a government for whom she was never allowed the chance to grow up and vote either for or against.”
-- Menzies CampbellSource : "Key quotes from the Commons debate" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2001.
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“We should be working towards a carbon-neutral Britain by 2050. We should be working towards the elimination of petrol-driven motor cars, we should be really radical in what we do - the urgency of the problem is really enormous”
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“It can fairly be said of John Smith that he had all the virtues of a Scottish presbyterian, but none of the vices.”
-- Menzies CampbellSource : Menzies Campbell (2008). “Menzies Campbell: My Autobiography”
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“My priorities? The environment, the environment, the environment.”
-- Menzies CampbellSource : "'My Priorities? The Environment, the Environment, the Environment'" by Michael White and Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. January 13, 2006.
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“Under my leadership the Liberal Democrats would not be making polite interjections from the sidelines, we would be hammering on the doors of power.”
-- Menzies CampbellSource : Birmingham Post, January 21, 2006.
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“Overall his period in office can only be characterised as a decade of missed opportunities in which the hopes of the British people for a new kind of politics were shattered [on Tony Blair]”
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“In the target seats we have been going like a bomb and there is a great deal of confidence. I think there's going to be a great deal of regional variation throughout the UK.”
-- Menzies Campbell
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