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

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Source : "The dinosaur’s fresh meat". www.economist.com. April 6, 2013.

Sarah Wollaston

#Mps Quotes #Legislation Quotes

“Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as mother love or cherry pie.”
“Does the song of the sea end at the shore or in the hearts of those who listen to it?”
“I love 'Sex and the City;' I think I've seen every episode.”
“The trade unions in the UK are campaigning around zero-hours contracts, which isn't about feminism, but it's a feminist issue. Women are affected by zero-hours contracts, and the recession has and is affecting women more than men.”
“Art in its execution and direction is dependent on the time in which it lives, and artists are creatures of their epoch. The highest art will be that which in its conscious content presents the thousandfold problems of the day, the art which has been visibly shattered by the explosions of last week The best and most extraordinary artists will be those who every hour snatch the tatters of their bodies out of the frenzied cataract of life, who, with bleeding hands and hearts, hold fast to the intelligence of their time.”
“Those of us of a certain age grew up expecting that by now we would have Rosie the Robot from 'The Jetsons' in our house. And all we've got is a Roomba.”
“I wanted to be wanted and he was very beautiful, kissed with his eyes closed, and only felt good while moving. You could drown in those eyes, I said, so itâ€™s summer, so itâ€™s suicide, so weâ€™re helpless in sleep and struggling at the bottom of the pool.”
“When the nuclear weapons were sent to the racist South African government, where a few million white people subjugated more than 13 million black people, it was so they could use them against the Cuban forces that were defending Angola. These things have not been written down but they need to be told as part of the reality of history which should not be distorted the way the historians connected to the power elite tend to do.”

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