"If you asked me if I'd rather be Speaker or a very senior minister, I'd say Speaker."

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Source : "The Saturday interview: John Bercow" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2011.

John Bercow

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“To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good.”
“The road recedes as the traveler advances, leaving a continuous present.”
“To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in a room, writing songs, it's a completely different process. It's a completely different place. It's a creative place, a musical place. It has nothing to do with who likes what.”
“It was easy not to think of my future; I didn't have one.”
“A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed.”
“If you stay consistent to the sport you will eventually get good, but you have to just want it more to be the best.”
“The most rational defender of nature is driven by a passion for wildness that cannot be explained by an appeal to logic.”
“Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money.”

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