Mp Quotes

#1. Whatever position we may rise to, be it of MP, CM or PM, nothing can teach us the way villages can ...

Narendra Modi

#2. Maybe I was naive, but I thought the whole point of being an MP was to scrutinise legislation and improve it.

Sarah Wollaston

#3. I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister.

David Blunkett

#4. When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.

Jeffrey Archer

#5. I wish more people knew that the only one of the three main parties where not a single MP flipped from one property to the next, and not a single MP avoided capital-gains tax, where every single London MP did not claim a penny of second-home allowance, was the Liberal Democrats.

Nick Clegg

#6. German-made Heckler & Koch MP-7 submachine guns with special compact M40 grenade launchers under the barrels.

Matthew Reilly

#7. For someone like me who, as a kid, walked to school muttering little political speeches to myself, it was irresistible to finally get a chance at political life for real. When the people of Etobicoke-Lakeshore elected me their MP, it changed me forever.

Michael Ignatieff

#8. Davy's work in Bristol came under attack by conservative politicians, including the famous Irish MP Edmund Burke, who accused the gas experiments of promoting not only atheism but the French Revolution.

Mark Kurlansky

#9. Whether an MP is a woman or a man, it's about the qualities of the individual in doing that job.

Theresa May

#10. In 2012, the Liberal Party affirmed overwhelmingly at the policy convention that we are a pro-choice party. It means that we are a party that defends women's rights, and therefore, it would be inconsistent for any Liberal MP to be able to vote to take away women's rights.

Justin Trudeau

#11. I was born in 1957 as the second son of the late Sat Paul and Lalita Mittal. My father was a politician and, at one point of time, an MP. A gap of two years separates me from both my elder brother Rakesh and younger sibling Rajan.

Sunil Mittal

#12. Bangalore needs a honest, passionate and hard-working MP, and I will be that MP.

Nandan Nilekani

#13. I do love the idea of being able to take an MP to court for lying. There are ways and means of taking an MP to court just now, but it is very difficult.

Mark Thomas

#14. It is my saddest day as an MP when my party brings in a bill which I'm fundamentally opposed to. I'm very sad my party has brought this in without any democratic mandate.

Peter Bone

#15. As a relatively young woman - I'm 33 - I hope to one day have a family and already have commitments. If and when I'm elected as an MP, I would face a choice: take my family with me to London each week or be apart for four, maybe five, nights a week.

Lucy Powell

#16. I'm not the only Labour MP who sent their child to public school but I'm the only one who's questioned about it.

Diane Abbott

#17. Being a backbench MP is a bit of an anti-climax for a superhero.

Rory Stewart

#18. Making money isn't something to be ashamed of. There's a feeling now that if you have money you must have got it by some kind of shady dealing or being an MP.

Terry Pratchett

#19. Professionally I would say taking up my constituents' problems is something I continue to enjoy after 22 years as an MP.

Charles Kennedy

#20. Any MP has to have a proper family life, they have to have support of their partner.

Michel Martelly

#21. My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.

Jack Davenport

#22. I take my favorite and most promising lads to the theater," said [Sherlock] Holmes. "I'd say that if they were born into better circumstances many would have grown up to be MP's, but in truth most are too smart and too honest for Parliament.

Dan Simmons

#23. Sovereignty rests with me as an English MP and that's the way it will stay.

Tony Blair

#24. I think a good MP is someone who cares for their community and becomes their champion, which is why I will make my home in any seat I am lucky enough to be selected for. Looks play no part in the equation, what matters is your ideas and connecting them to the electorate.

Adam Rickitt

#25. I joined the 800th MP Brigade when they were already deployed.

Janis Karpinski

#26. Though I am an MP from Maharashtra, my heart beats for Katihar.

Tariq Anwar

#27. Being an MP is a good job, the sort of job all working-class parents want for their children
clean, indoors and no heavy lifting. What could be nicer?

Diane Abbott

#28. I'm a solid Labour party supporter. I aspired to be a Labour MP, but it's difficult to make the leap from the Foreign Office.

Jonathan Powell

#29. There wasn't a Scottish nationalist MP elected at any general election when we were outside the E.U.

Michael Gove

#30. In Parliament a fellow MP whispered to him that his trousers were unfastened. "It makes no difference," Winston replied wryly. "The dead bird doesn't leave the nest.

William Manchester

#31. For instance, I never wrote to my MP to express my displeasure at the widespread deployment of sleeping policemen around the capital. It never occurred to me to do so: Mo and I don't own a car, and speed bumps

Charles Stross

#32. Mere tabloid journalists, obliged to choose between the word of a Tory MP and that of a common prostitue, have been far too stupid to see that you can put your mortgage on the latter being true.

William Donaldson

#33. I want to do something for Kirkcaldy and Fife. I am a full-time MP, not a businessman.

Gordon Brown

#34. Quite apart from the problem of the vote, it's bad for the image of Parliament that people take the trouble to come up and are not allowed to see their MP

Vince Cable

#35. I need to maintain a home in Derbyshire and in London to be able both to represent my constituents and to fulfil my responsibilities as an MP and as a minister.

Geoff Hoon

#36. That's the point. If these Labour MP's were really working men, they'd have some sense. But most of 'em, or at least the ones I've met, seem to be half-baked intellectuals who've specialized in economics or some such dreary muck.

Carter Dickson

#37. The only quality needed for an MP is the ability to write a good letter.

Harold Macmillan

#38. The duty of responsibility placed on any MP is one of the greatest honours that can be bestowed and I for one don't believe the Conservative Party would abuse that trust by selecting someone who did not have the goods to do the job, just for the sake of media coverage.

Adam Rickitt

#39. The mission statement was ordered, and it sent the 800th MP Brigade, effective the first of July, up to Baghdad. I joined my brigade to take command at the end of June.

Janis Karpinski

#40. Has anyone sen Mr Snark "
"I saw him in the tunnel about 15 minutes ago."
"Oh no " wailed Dr Ferman "he will have been atomised."
"Oh dear" muttered an MP. "Bye-election.

Alexander McCall Smith

#41. Being an MP is not a desperately hard life, like going down the pit or working in the steelworks - with which I am all too familiar, having been brought up in the city of Sheffield; and it certainly isn't badly paid compared with any of my constituents.

David Blunkett

#42. Jim Sheridan, the MP who wants to ban sketchwriters from the Commons for being rude about politicians, is a blithering idiot. Sorry, scrub that - clearly a very thoughtful person with whom I might conceivably disagree on some marginal issues. A blithering savant, perhaps.

Simon Hoggart

#43. It was a bit of a surprise when I became a Tory MP. My friends said it was a stupid idea.

Rory Stewart

#44. Description by the former girlfriend of a grossly overweight MP, who had said that making love to him was like having a wardrobe fall on top of her with the key still in the door. That

Peter James

#45. An MP is the only job where you have 70,000 employers, and only one employee.

Tony Benn

#46. Being an MP feeds your vanity and starves your self- respect.

Matthew Parris

#47. The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas.

Boris Johnson

#48. He was a Labour MP so I asked him if it was true the House of Commons was a form of poor relief for the otherwise unemployable...

Robert Robinson

#49. From Chapter 1:
The main rub was the lack of RnR and I burned out. Three years and three stripes later, I ejected from the MP Corps, vowing I'd never do police or criminal investigative work again. Instead, I returned home when I should've learned better.

Ed Lynskey

#50. When I was first elected to parliament 18 years ago, one of the many things that struck me and that I still feel now is how the Labour Party, the party of collective action, can, at MP level and above, behave in such an individualistic way.

Bob Ainsworth