Margaret Hodge Quotes

#1. Migration is a feature of globalisation. You can't stop it; so every time a political party says it is going to be tough on immigration, it fails to deliver and loses trust.

Margaret Hodge

#2. Groupthink can become a serious issue - old ideas stay around after they're useful, and new ideas too often don't get a fair hearing.

Elizabeth Warren

#3. Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's there in paintings of photographs, photographs of advertising, sculpture with ready-made objects, videos using already-existing film.

Jerry Saltz

#4. For me it's not a question of whether we should intrude in family life, but how and when.

Margaret Hodge

#5. To find someone who will love you through success and failure is to discover how little life has to do with either.

Robert Breault

#6. We are not accusing you of being illegal, we are accusing you of being immoral

Margaret Hodge

#7. I don't separate my books into historical novels and the rest. To me, they're all made-up worlds, and both kinds are borne out of curiosity, some investigation into the past.

Peter Carey

#8. A dreamory is a dream that's a memory.

Brownell Landrum

#9. Don't confuse what FEELS right, for what IS right.

Todd Wagner

#10. Persian insect powder, mixed into a paste with petroleum jelly, had killed the lice in her hair, but then she'd inspected her clothes and found them infested with body lice, likely picked up from one of the walking wounded who

Jennifer Robson

#11. I'd always been a fan growing up, and in high school, I was really into Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen.

Bryan Hayes

#12. I just loved comedy as a kid and I think at some point, it just occurred to me that you could try it, and I did.

Eugene Mirman

#13. Members of the public would be forgiven for thinking that it is MPs who are lazy and that it is Parliament that is failing to provide good value for money.

Margaret Hodge

#14. Government must guard against quasi-monopoly suppliers becoming too important to fail, and encourage competition through, for example, splitting up contracts to encourage (smaller businesses) to bid for work.

Margaret Hodge