"I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.“

-John Major

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"It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics , to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for the others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family - and not shuffling it off on other people and the state."

-John Major

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"If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government."

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"The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare."

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"Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence."

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"Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot."

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"Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less."

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"Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not."

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"Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women."

-Gordon B. Hinckley

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"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."

-H. L. Mencken

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"Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be."

-Rita Rudner

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"I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world."

-Georges Duhamel

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"Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"

-Confucius

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