"As a politician - particularly as a politician in a coalition - you quickly realise that compromise is a part of the game. But there are some issues where you have to draw the line - where you have to stand up and be counted, and you have to do the right thing. I think climate change is firmly in that category."

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Source : "Prince Charles attacks global warming sceptics" by Fiona Harvey, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2013.

Edward Davey

#Thinking Quotes #Games Quotes #Issues Quotes

“If it was never new and it never gets old, then it's a folk song”
“I can't remember the past, or I can't see very clearly, or I've gotten older and the person I was isn't there anymore, and the place I grew up isn't where I live now.”
“I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.”

Source : "I Am Woman" (song) (1971)
“Humans aren't defined by death, and they're not defined by what they lack. They're defined by their connections.”
“If you wanna dance, a windshield wiper'll do it-all you need is a beat.”
“LeBron James has cemented himself as one of the GREAT PLAYERS of ALL TIME.”
“Bookish people drolly claim to be addicted. I think, in some cases, this is literally true. . . . I suppose this makes me a small-time pusher, holding a couple of capsules of a novel compound, looking for vulnerable readers for whom it might turn out to be habit-forming. There's enough of them. When I walk into a bookshop--one of the big ones, a vast dispensary stacked with complex uppers and downers--I can't help thinking, my God, what army of junkies is all this feeding?”
“Why do anything unless it is going to be great?”

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