Nick Clegg quote: "I didn't become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. It's not the be all and end all for us. There are other very, very key ambitions in politics, not least social mobility and life chances, that I care about as passionately if not more."

The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Eu...
NICK CLEGG

Although I am a young leader, I actually came to it strangely quite late. I have a different perspec...
NICK CLEGG

I've just been away for a week, and I dropped my BlackBerry in the sea while I was messing aroun...
NICK CLEGG

I will not accept a new wave of fiscal retrenchment, of belt-tightening, without asking people at th...
NICK CLEGG

I am a passionate believer in freedom of speech. I would not support anything which would impinge on...
NICK CLEGG

Joining the Liberal Party was a no-brainer for me... And when you are a young man, you don't get...
NICK CLEGG

I wish more people knew that the only one of the three main parties where not a single MP flipped fr...
NICK CLEGG

We need to teach our kids, because there is such a celebrity culture at the moment, that however ric...
NICK CLEGG

The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language th...
NICK CLEGG

I don't want to clip on the armour every morning. I've seen some politicians do this and the...
NICK CLEGG

Voters tell politicians what they want through the ballot box. Constantly second-guessing them by sp...
NICK CLEGG

I don't lead a particularly Bohemian existence. The main criterion for me is not to be judgement...
NICK CLEGG

The choices politicians make must be based on values - not an arbitrary, axe-wielding approach to pu...
NICK CLEGG

Liberalism is a really old British tradition and it has a completely different attitude towards the ...
NICK CLEGG

The Liberal Democrat Party and the Conservative Party come at things very differently when it comes ...
NICK CLEGG

Most people in this country are very fair-minded; they understand we're in the middle of a very ...
NICK CLEGG

If the euro zone doesn't come up with a comprehensive vision of its own future, you'll have ...
NICK CLEGG

You've got some very powerful countries: Poland, the United Kingdom, Sweden and others who have ...
NICK CLEGG

Actually, the curious thing is that the more you become a subject of admiration or loathing, the mor...
NICK CLEGG

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's hig...
NICK CLEGG

The Labour Party has become consumed by collective bile towards... the Liberal Democrats. That portr...
NICK CLEGG

Liberal Democrats in government will not follow the last Labour government by sounding the retreat o...
NICK CLEGG

I totally accept that it's a legitimate criticism that when you are involved in the day-to-day s...
NICK CLEGG

If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it's the liberalism of tryin...
NICK CLEGG

I don't even pretend we can occupy the Lib Dem holier-than-thou, hands-entirely-clean-and-entire...
NICK CLEGG

We can't return to the 19th century, draw up our drawbridges and say, we don't have anything...
NICK CLEGG

Grown-up politicians talk to each other across party lines. Over the last few weeks I have had lengt...
NICK CLEGG

The Conservative Party is not honouring the commitment to Lords reform and, as a result, part of our...
NICK CLEGG

We are keen to stress that a strong euro zone is good for a strong United Kingdom. It's not for ...
NICK CLEGG

For far too long the world's poorest people have seen no benefit from the vast natural resources...
NICK CLEGG

One thing I have frankly decided is that when it comes to political reform we have two conservative ...
NICK CLEGG

Our Sheffield and London homes are worth well over a million but the bank owns most of them - we are...
NICK CLEGG

I have faith that worthy but misunderstood or ignored books can still prevail - and when they do, fe...
BILL CLEGG

I was pretty strict in high school about who I would listen to. Musicians like Neil Young, Cat Steve...
BILL CLEGG

Navigating a nonsober world of restaurants and bars, dinner parties, and benefits is like anything t...
BILL CLEGG

Recovery is an ongoing project that is really discrete from everything else in my life. It allows me...
BILL CLEGG

William Kittredge's 'Hole in the Sky' is one of my favorite books. Ian Frazier's ...
BILL CLEGG

In college, I would follow Bob Dylan around, and I would show up to a concert, and he would sing som...
BILL CLEGG

I think growing up in such a small town - before cell phones, before the Internet, before Facebook, ...
BILL CLEGG

Elections themselves are not the magic bullet,
CLAUDE CLEGG

I'm rereading Jenny Offill's 'Dept. of Speculation.' I love it, and she's just a...
BILL CLEGG

You can't not build a bobsleigh track. But if you have a budget problem, there is an impact on perip...
SIMON CLEGG

Maybe that facilitated the willingness of some people to project upon Africa their hopes and desires...
CLAUDE CLEGG

Rough as life can be, I know in my bones we are supposed to stick around and play our part. Even if ...
BILL CLEGG

I think many Liberians see the United States as sort of a godfather figure. They see the United Stat...
CLAUDE CLEGG

Public speaking, for me, or speaking even in front of a handful of people is my greatest fear.
BILL CLEGG

[Colonization] was supposed to be sort of a remedy for slavery and racial inequality in the country,
CLAUDE CLEGG

Some trees love an ax, a drunk old-timer mumbled one night at the Tap, back when she still went ther...
BILL CLEGG

And no one will remember us, who we were or what happened here. Sand will blow across Pacific Avenue...
BILL CLEGG

There was a certain amount of romantic sentiment that comes through some of the letters
CLAUDE CLEGG

I think many Liberians see the United States as sort of a godfather figure, ... They see the United ...
CLAUDE CLEGG

It has to be the case Liberians buy into the idea that an election will matter, they will participat...
CLAUDE CLEGG

It was the same issue as this country and any other settler society in which you have a native peopl...
CLAUDE CLEGG

I was hit by a car when I was 13, and the rumour was immediately that I had been playing chicken wit...
BILL CLEGG

I think of the part of me that writes as the most private self. It's the part that's engaged...
BILL CLEGG

I spent the first 33 years of my life with secrets, and lots of them. I spent a great deal of energy...
BILL CLEGG

In the little rural town I grew up in, I missed out on the pop music of the time, the '80s, and ...
BILL CLEGG

I work very hard every day not to have a lot of expectations. You just let go of the results, becaus...
BILL CLEGG

If you feel like you don't have a choice to write it, write it. If you feel like you do have a c...
BILL CLEGG

I identify as an agent when I'm agenting, and I identify as an author when I'm writing. I ex...
BILL CLEGG

Left to my own devices, I'd probably Google myself all day.
BILL CLEGG

If a writer I represent gets a bad or unfair review, I suffer. I'm upset and outraged and do eve...
BILL CLEGG

I don't think of literary novels as self-help documents, although literature undoubtedly saved m...
BILL CLEGG

My experience is that books take on a life of their own and create their own energy. I've repres...
BILL CLEGG

It's totally appropriate to be anxious about the future of things you care about, especially in ...
BILL CLEGG

I really appreciate what it takes to create a book. I understand the loneliness that it involves and...
BILL CLEGG

With memoir, you have the clay of your life to work with. When you're writing a novel, you have ...
BILL CLEGG

My experience of fiction was, in the beginning, so exploratory. I wasn't sitting down to a desk ...
BILL CLEGG

I've been interested in the idea of forgiveness and the necessity of it. I think of it as the mo...
BILL CLEGG

We only learn at the speed of pain, and we don't have others in our lives without forgiveness.
BILL CLEGG

It's all about balance. The middle school and high school students are the ones that most often skip...
LINDA CLEGG

We have tried to address this. It's not a policy but a philosophy.
LINDA CLEGG

The fact is that no student should be told that he or she is barred from participating in a program ...
ROGER CLEGG

Our concern is that the law be followed and that nobody be denied participation in a program on acco...
ROGER CLEGG

"The cradle of modern democracy but was now, on some measures, the most centralised country in Europ...
BRITISH DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER NICK CLEGG

Because if we were all the same, then we would all share the same weaknesses.
NICK

Being scared is simply fear of incompetence.
NICK

One, two, three, Im gon be crazy and free.
NICK

Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal tru...
WILLIAM C. CLEGG

I urge people with osteoarthritis to follow a comprehensive plan for managing their arthritis pain. ...
DANIEL O. CLEGG

My Vocation is my Vacation. I love what I do.
NICK CANNON

It's fun having songs about parties and gigolos, but I really wanted to use my music as a form o...
NICK CANNON

The people who truly love me and loved me before all of this stuff. You can't ever leave them be...
NICK CANNON

The beautiful thing about acting is that you can just dive into the character, strip yourself of eve...
NICK CANNON

Real men change diapers!
NICK CANNON

Most aspiring child actors or child stars have a passion for it. But as easy as it is for me to say ...
NICK CANNON

I'm not geeky but I have my geeky, corky moments, and then I've got some aspects of cool in ...
NICK CANNON

I always say that candy is the perfect studio food - it keeps your energy going.
NICK CANNON

Just speak yourself into existence. Whatever you want, speak it. You can see it.
NICK CANNON

Hunger is a deep concern of mine, and I feel that no one should go without food in this world as lon...
NICK CANNON

You have to be vigorous. That's the only way you are going to get it because everybody has dream...
NICK CANNON

I was 16 years old, driving to LA, and sleeping in my car, just trying to make it happen.
NICK CANNON

Right now, I'm as single as a slice of American cheese.
NICK CANNON

A lot of the girls my age were impressed by silly stuff like money and fame. I wanted to be able to ...
NICK CANNON

One thing about being a stand-up is it's a one-man show. You gotta do everything. You're the...
NICK CANNON

So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of...
NICK CANNON

I think I'm actually built for fatherhood. I love to have a good time and play, but at the same ...
NICK CANNON

Mariah is a beautiful and talented person, and I've had a crush on her for as long as I can reme...
NICK CANNON

I think my kids give mommy more attention than they give me.
NICK CANNON

People think that as a celebrity, you have to have this sort of mystique about you, but I'm prob...
NICK CANNON

The world of music is changing so dramatically every day, the way people hear music. It's differ...
NICK JONAS

You have to struggle a bit, hustle a little, and be willing to go bankrupt. Once you're willing ...
NICK NOLTE

I started racing myself and once you get bitten by that bug you really are hooked.
NICK MASON

Once, the world was full of mysteries, some of them frightening, some of them wonderful, some of the...
NICK DAVIES

To me, a forever love is a bond that can't be broken.
NICK CANNON

In high school, I went to a place called the Mountain School. It's on a farm in Vermont, and I r...
NICK KROLL

I grew up here in New York City and New Jersey, performing on Broadway shows, surrounded by some of ...
NICK JONAS

I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.
NICK CARTER

Fantasy football has changed how I watch football because now every game is interesting start to fin...
NICK KROLL

Things that burn very brightly, we wonder how long they can keep burning.
NICK WOODMAN

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
NICK RICHARDSON

People who are feeling bullied and people who feel like outsiders should talk to their parents and g...
NICK JONAS

The thing about us businesspeople is that we love our customers rich and our employees poor.
NICK HANAUER

I usually get down with a little Violent Femmes in the summer. You know, 'Blister In The Sun....
NICK ROBINSON

Dad was a difference maker. He reached out to people. He took them by the awe and wonder we feel ove...
NICK SAGAN

I do public appearances. I'm bluff, hearty, goofy. I wear loud clothes, and I read the funny bit...
NICK HARKAWAY

When it blows here, even the seagulls walk.
NICK FALDO

The U.S. has taken an active role in wars from Libya to the Central African Republic, sent special o...
NICK TURSE

At training, I consider myself a bit of a morale booster. I take a pack of lollies just to boost the...
NICK CUMMINS

I work in our living room, a strange room in a strange, topsy-turvy house. I work underneath this en...
NICK HARKAWAY

I see now that dismissing YA books because you’re not a young adult is a little bit like refusing ...
NICK HORNBY

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.
NICK HERTL

You know, even working actors can end up having a lot of spare time. And you can either go sit at th...
NICK OFFERMAN

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
NICK GORSKI

You want to be appreciated for all your work as opposed to one performance, but I'll always be &...
NICK MORAN

I wish I was a cool guy and could drink coffee black, but I put almond milk and raw cane sugar in it...
NICK KROLL

Lemons. He liked lemons. They made you make funny faces when you bit them, and a very, very long way...
NICK HARKAWAY

So, your kids must love the iPad?” I asked Mr. [Steve] Jobs, trying to change the subject. The com...
NICK BILTON

It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree viole...
NICK HORNBY

People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that...
NICK HORNBY

Over the years I've come to appreciate how animals enter our lives prepared to teach and far from be...
NICK TROUT

It may be a cat, a bird, a ferret, or a guinea pig, but the chances are high that when someone close...
NICK TROUT

People don't want children to know what they need to know. They want their kids to know what ...
NICK HARKAWAY

As I live life, I believe that the highest value I, and anyone who is ready, able and willing, is to...
NICK CATRICALA

Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to wher...
NICK HORNBY

my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.
NICK HORNBY

The word is control. That's my ultimate -- to have control.
NICK FALDO

The legacy of Democrats and Republicans approaches: Libertarianism by bankruptcy.
NICK NUESSLE

With rivers as with good friends, you always feel better for a few hours in their presence; you alwa...
NICK LYONS

If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.
NICK NOLTE

Magic isn't done; it's only just begun!
NICK NEWBERRY

All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our dispos...
NICK HORNBY

If hooking a car battery up to a monkey's brain will help find the cure for AIDS and save somebody's...
NICK DIPAOLO

Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens.
NICK DIAMOS

Modernism isn't a design ethos any more, it's an economy of scale, and a marketing tool to sell the ...
NICK HARKAWAY

A desire for privacy does not imply shameful secrets; Moglen argues, again and again, that without a...
NICK HARKAWAY

Keeping people fired up starts with having a really clear vision for what the company is aiming to d...
NICK WOODMAN

We were in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. It's a nice town, but it's aggressively quaint. They've ...
NICK ROBINSON

I'm developing more stuff in my voice, more Nick Swardson. It's me as myself in a sense and ...
NICK SWARDSON

I think our slow, humble beginnings in surf shops, ski shops, bike shops, and motorcycle shops have ...
NICK WOODMAN

In ancient Greece, Socrates reportedly didn't fancy a literate society. He felt that people woul...
NICK HARKAWAY

I wrote the first draft of 'Tigerman' while my wife was pregnant - needless to say, I was re...
NICK HARKAWAY

Our actions in the Middle East over the last 15 years have already guaranteed radical Muslims quite ...
NICK CLOONEY

One of the pleasant duties of America's most famous announcers during the relatively short swing...
NICK CLOONEY

Traits acquired during one's lifetime - muscles built up in the gym, for example - cannot be pas...
NICK BOSTROM

If you talk to most ambitious people, people who are high achievers, they're rarely at peace wit...
NICK KROLL

I was inspired by how Red Bull isn't about the drink; it isn't about the product or the can....
NICK WOODMAN

I just work - however people feel about it, I mean, at the end of the day, if I'm waiting for ac...
NICK CANNON

Nobody can predict the future. You just have to give your all to the relationship you're in and ...
NICK CANNON

My thoughts on gay marriage are that everyone has the right to love and be loved, and that's the...
NICK JONAS

The further you get into technology, the further you go into gaming. That's the general rule.
NICK JOHNSON

Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about doing th...
NICK CAVE

The rock star is dying. And it's a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for t...
NICK CAVE

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information a...
NICK CAVE

Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the ...
NICK CAVE

I don't have any authority to talk about the domestic policies of America. But as an outsider, I...
NICK CAVE

I love performing. I can get to be that person I always wanted to be - godlike.
NICK CAVE

I would hate to think my songs were giving advice to people.
NICK CAVE

I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful c...
NICK CAVE

I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked o...
NICK CAVE

I lost my innocence with Johnny Cash. I used to watch the 'Johnny Cash Show' on television i...
NICK CAVE

I think it's a part of us as human beings that we search outside of ourselves for meaning.
NICK CAVE

After a while, you just don't do things you don't wanna do - that's the great freedom yo...
NICK CAVE

There are methods to creating a mayhem that sounds different from your usual mayhem. Because mayhem ...
NICK CAVE

'Inspiration' is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.
NICK CAVE

Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeo...
NICK CAVE

There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always b...
NICK CAVE

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.
NICK CAVE

I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.
NICK CAVE

Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It's a reduction of things.
NICK CAVE

I always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so.
NICK CAVE

I am not interested in anything that doesn't have a genuine heart to it. You've got to have ...
NICK CAVE

A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
NICK CAVE

If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to preven...
NICK CAVE

Now, there is always a tremendous fear of science and progressing forward into areas of the unknown ...
NICK NOLTE

Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense o...
NICK CAVE

Despite global economic concerns, other nations are continuing to push forward and invest in their s...
NICK LAMPSON

As southeast Texas's only Member of the House Transportation Committee, I'm especially proud...
NICK LAMPSON

Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritar...
NICK LAMPSON

More needs to be done to take the fight to the enemy and secure our borders against the terrorist th...
NICK LAMPSON

The war on terror is a fight that we did not start, but it is one that we shall finish.
NICK LAMPSON

Today, I will vote in support of the Marriage Protection Amendment. I shall do so because like Presi...
NICK LAMPSON

With 1.7 million private sector jobs lost and half a million jobs shipped overseas over the past thr...
NICK LAMPSON

While we face economic obstacles that challenge every decision made in Washington, decisions made me...
NICK LAMPSON

Any veteran can tell you it is already hard enough to see a doctor down at the VA and get the health...
NICK LAMPSON

Mr. Speaker, in seeking to return to the United Nations, the Republic of China on Taiwan will once a...
NICK LAMPSON

Such an arrangement would provide Taiwan and China with a forum for dialogue whereby they may forge ...
NICK LAMPSON

The local communities, through their leaders, were able to build a communications network that allow...
NICK LAMPSON

We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no ...
NICK LAMPSON

Congress should stop treating veterans like they're asking for a hand out when it comes to the b...
NICK LAMPSON

I didn't become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. It's not the be all and end all for us. There are other very, very key ambitions in politics, not least social mobility and life chances, that I care about as passionately if not more.

Nick Clegg

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