Nick Clegg > Quotes

“I need to say this – you shouldn't trust any government, actually including this one. You should not trust government – full stop. The natural inclination of government is to hoard power and information; to accrue power to itself in the name of the public good.”
― Nick Clegg

“All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong … The only crime is pride. Sophocles”
― Nick Clegg, How To Stop Brexit

“David Davis had promised that Britain would be part of a free-trade area ‘almost twice the size of the EU’ within two years of the Brexit vote – a statement outdone in its absurdity only by Mr Davis’ later boast of negotiating a trading area ‘probably ten times the size of the European Union’. Based on GDP, Davis is aiming for something larger than the economies of the entire planet combined.68 So it can’t happen.”
― Nick Clegg, How To Stop Brexit

“The vote for Brexit is having a widespread and negative effect on the economy. These are not predictions, nor can they be dismissed as the findings from the experts that Michael Gove was so quick to denigrate. Economic uncertainty is taking its toll. It is not Project Fear. It is Project Reality.”
― Nick Clegg, How To Stop Brexit

“Reason, in the end, will win against unreason.”
― Nick Clegg, Politics: Between the Extremes

“message”
― Nick Clegg, Politics: Between the Extremes

“In a mature democracy, the winner simply cannot take it all.”
― Nick Clegg, How To Stop Brexit

“There is a future for us in that reformed Union, if we are prepared to grasp it. Brexit does not have to be hard or soft, rough or smooth, clean or messy, or even red, white and blue. In fact, Brexit does not have to mean Brexit at all.”
― Nick Clegg, How To Stop Brexit