Quotes About Backbenchers

#1. Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he did actually shut up in the end.

Anthony Holden

#2. I've never liked what's meant to be cool. I was asked to do Glastonbury the year before last actually, but I couldn't make it. I would have liked to, but I'm not really a festival man.

Tony Blackburn

#3. Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#4. You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.

Spider Robinson

#5. Leaders often find themselves temporarily alone.

Ernest Gruening

#6. Early access is very valuable, there are a lot of consumers who would love to see something early.

Jason Kilar

#7. I acknowledge to myself that sometimes I am a snail. I move myself by gliding. I contract my muscles and produce a slime of tears. Sometimes you see the tears and sometimes you don't. It is my tears that allow me to glide.

Chinelo Okparanta

#8. I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.

Michael Bloomberg

#9. She still felt shell-shocked by all of it, numb. Beneath the numbness, though, was a raw and terrible anger that was unlike anything she'd felt before. She had so little experience with genuine anger that it scared her. She actually worried that if she started screaming, she'd never stop.

Kristin Hannah