Betty Boothroyd quotes
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“You've got to ensure that the holders of an opinion, however unpopular, are allowed to put across their points of view.”
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“My desire to get here [Parliament] was like miners'coal dust, it was under my fingers and I couldn't scrub it out.”
-- Betty BoothroydSource : Quoted in Glenys Kinnock and Fiona Millar (eds) By Faith and Daring (1993).
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“Good temper and moderation are the characteristics of parliamentary language.”
-- Betty BoothroydSource : 1995 In The Independent, 9 Feb.
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“I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy”
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“No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.”
Source : Abel Stevens (1881). “Madame de Staël, a Study of Her Life and Times: The First Revolution and the First Empire”
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“Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.”
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“I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.”
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