Top 54 John Prescott Sayings
#1. I can't look at John Prescott without thinking of Les Dawson, and Robin Cook is a caricature of himself.
Rory Bremner
#2. We have arrived at the point where the public are right in thinking that John Prescott no longer serves a purpose in governing the country, only a purpose in trying to hold together the fragile peace in the Labour Party
Andrew Lansley
#3. John Prescott has made the government look greedy and ridiculous. Labour is seen as the corrupt party. The government has been fulfilling the old rule that oppositions do not win elections, governments lose them.
William Rees-Mogg
#4. If you're looking for ways to cut waste in government, you can start with John Prescott.
George Osborne
#5. This was an away-day for the deputy prime minister's staff, who've had a change of responsibilities [on John Prescott's scandalous playing habits ... on the croquet lawn]
Paul Clark
#6. Sentences I never thought I would write. (1) That John Prescott certainly has a way with the ladies. (2) Give it to Steve McClaren, he seems like the man for the England job. (3) Peter Crouch is the man to replace Rooney.
Martin Samuel
#7. Because of the security reasons for one thing and, second, my wife doesn't like to have her hair blown about. Have you got another silly question?
John Prescott
#8. In the north east, there, they have had quite a bit of government offices moving in. It's not a new policy.
John Prescott
#9. My roots, my background and the way I act is working class, but it would be hypsocritical to say I'm anything else than middle class now.
John Prescott
#10. He made an enormous contribution to British politics in opposition and in government [on Robin Cook]
John Prescott
#11. I have only been seeking to get them to the negotiating table and, thank God, that's where they are.
John Prescott
#12. This was released I think in February and so it is a great deal of fuss being made, it hasn't in fact been given public release, it was released in February ...
John Prescott
#13. Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my age and build could be suffering from bulimia nervosa, but that's what the consultant said I had.
John Prescott
#14. When I see that man on the telly - 'Are you thinking what I'm thinking?' No! I'm definitely not! I find most of it quite offensive!
John Prescott
#15. Refurbishing I've done in the first three years and I'm still giving housing money, of course, to the north.
John Prescott
#16. I will have failed in this if in five years there are not many more people using public transport and far fewer journeys by car. It is a tall order but I want you to hold me to it.
John Prescott
#17. We are making the fundamental changes. It was like the decent housing target. We said by 2010, we'd have taken a million houses and refurbished them into decent housing.
John Prescott
#18. The Green Belt is a Labour achievement - and we mean to build on it.
John Prescott
#20. Down in the south, it's how we find the brownfield sites without taking too much land take to meet the tremendous demand for housing, and that's what I've done.
John Prescott
#21. We now have a satisfactory solution not only to coalition forces, but also to the Iraqi authorities themselves.
John Prescott
#22. It's moving in the right direction. It was in decline under the previous administration.
John Prescott
#23. All I could feel was this warm liquid running down my neck. You automatically think it's blood, it's all in split seconds, so I decided to say I didn't agree with him.
John Prescott
#24. What government has been doing, we've got major programmes now, of billions of pounds, which are directed by central government into these areas of deprivation.
John Prescott
#25. Perhaps if England and Scotland together had one team we could at least beat the Germans.
John Prescott
#26. The choice is not normally between the north and south. It might be between Britain and Europe.
John Prescott
#27. Improving the quality of life for people of this country is perhaps the most important duty of Government
John Prescott
#29. There is progress taking place, growth is better. We're only talking about two years there.
John Prescott
#30. From 1997 when we came in, you guys and the public bought seven million more cars. You didn't get rid of the second car, did you? So what is happening is the growth of cars on the motorway.
John Prescott
#31. There was only one punch. Tony Blair rang me and he said 'Are you OK?' and I said 'Yes', and he said 'Well, what happened?' and I said 'I was just carrying out your orders. You told us to connect with the electorate, so I did.
John Prescott
#32. That's what I think regions are about, making central government more accountable and fairer.
John Prescott
#33. In a sense, what we do with the regional development agencies is to give them resources to look at the deficiencies in the economy in the regional areas, so they can address themselves to that.
John Prescott
#34. She tried to ignore the fact that the dazzling, colourful world John had opened up for her had suddenly switched back to grey.
Eleanor Prescott
#35. I was the one that brought it in, but not only for the north-east, for every area so we can develop all the regional economies, lift up the national productivity, get greater wealth and share it more evenly.
John Prescott
#36. So what I did was stuff my face with anything around, any old rubbish, burgers, chocolate, crisps, fish and chips, loads of it, till I felt sick - but at least I'd had the pleasure of stuffing my face and feeling really full.
John Prescott
#37. These charges that have been made against me, that Prof. Prescott has made, has charged against me, that I denied the atonement in conversation with him, are absolutely false.
John Harvey Kellogg
#38. What we are beginning to witness is a whole new set of rules for economics, based on rationing resources.
John Prescott
#39. My department is not too big for one man, because I'm Superman.
John Prescott
#40. We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent.
John Prescott
#41. She's not forgiven me, but we have a wonderful life from our family and that's the nature and quality of that woman that she can say that.
John Prescott
#42. Labour economic stability has replaced Tory boom and bust
John Prescott
#43. I see this fella built like a barn door ... and there's all these fox hunters, who didn't like me, screaming and shouting and as I walked past him I looked at him and he hit me with something.
John Prescott
#44. In the firmament of science Mayer and Joule constitute a double star, the light of each being in a certain sense complementary to that of the other.
John Tyndall
#45. [Samuel Prescott was] returning from a lady friend's house at the awkward hour of 1 a.m.
John M. Murrin
#46. I've gone through that with my mother and father and here I was in a similar situation. I've wronged her and I've wronged the family. Because when these things happen, it doesn't just happen to you, it happens to the people around you and the family.
John Prescott
#47. I don't get a fair whack, I don't pursue vendettas or punch people on the nose.
John Prescott
#48. There's no excuse, it's just an opportunity that presented in a limited way and that happened and as soon as the press rang me I didn't deny it I just said 'that's it' and I had to go home and explain it.
John Prescott
#49. The only break I ever took was to eat. That's all I did. Work, and then quickly eat something. It became my main pleasure, having access to my comfort food.
John Prescott
#50. Why can't we, with a more intelligent policy, actually have houses that are affordable, built at higher densities than they are at the moment and built on brownfield sites.
John Prescott
#51. I've always felt very proud of Wales and being Welsh. People are a bit surprised when I say I'm Welsh. I was born in Wales, went to school in Wales and my mother was Welsh. I'm Welsh. It's my place of birth, my country.
John Prescott
#52. If you look at Newcastle or Gateshead, even over twenty years, even with the previous administration, it has moved quite remarkably in transforming itself.
John Prescott
#53. You go down some street - no doubt it's there, and we have to do something about it, and our programmes are designed to do that - but if that's a picture of Newcastle, it's not the one I recognise and I bet none in the North East do either.
John Prescott
#54. We've given more resources. On housing, we are now establishing a regional housing pot.
John Prescott
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