Nick Clegg
Nick Clegg
Nicholas William Peter Cleggis a British Liberal Democrat politician who was the Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Lord President of the Council from 2010 to 2015 in the Cameron coalition ministry. Clegg was the Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2007 to 2015 and has been the Member of Parliamentfor Sheffield Hallam since 2005...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth7 January 1967
order world faces
After the economic 9/11, we will face a new world order.
government ruts stories
[All governments] get into a rut where every potentially good story turns into a bad one.
phones want messages
Every time [Chris Bryant] asks a question I become more and more baffled why anyone would want to hack his phone and listen to his messages
hard-work simple thinking
I think it is a simple statement of principle that in a democracy you should make your MPs work harder for your vote and try and get at least majority support in their local area, and that in a nutshell is what AV does.
nhs done care
I care more about getting this right [NHS reform] than I do about getting it done.
abuse strategy
[Ed Miliband]'s elevated personal abuse into a sort of strategy
years government leader
If there's one thing I'm not going to apologise for as the leader of the Liberal Democrats in government after 60 or 70 years of being out of government, it's that you just cannot avoid but deal with the world the way it is.
morning worry wake-up
One thing I've very quickly learned is that if you wake up every morning worrying about what's in the press, you would go completely and utterly potty.
party outlook-on-life needs
We need to reach out to small 'l' liberal voters who have a modern outlook on life, who want a party that is hard-headed on the economy - more credible on the economy than Labour - but more socially progressive and fairer than the Conservatives.
years people election
What I hope is in five years' time, I can go to the British people in the election and say: Lots of you doubted that coalition politics worked, but it has worked.
attitude different doe
Liberalism is a really old British tradition and it has a completely different attitude towards the individual and the relationship between the individual and the state than the collectivist response of Labour, and particularly Old Labour, does.
support accountability freedom-of-speech
I am a passionate believer in freedom of speech. I would not support anything which would impinge on aggressive robust freedom of the British press, but when things go wrong and there has been outright illegality, there should be proper accountability.
dad children school
I say this as a young dad seeing children going into primary school: I don't think we should underestimate the formative effect on a child of those first years in primary school.
kids culture needs
We need to teach our kids, because there is such a celebrity culture at the moment, that however rich you are, however famous you are, however glamorous you are, everyone has to live by the same rules.