David Cameron People are increasingly frustrated that decisions taken further and further away from them mean their living standards are slashed through enforced austerity or their taxes are used to bail out governments on the other side of the continent. – David Cameron Austerity Quotes Bail Quotes Continent Quotes Decisions Quotes Enforced Quotes Frustrated Quotes Governments Quotes Increasingly Quotes Living Quotes People Quotes Slashed Quotes Standards Quotes Taxes Quotes The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc. We must not be weighed down by an insistence on a one size fits all approach which implies that all countries want the same level of integration. The fact is that they don’t and we shouldn’t assert that they do. In a global race, can we really justify the huge number of expensive peripheral European institutions? Can we justify a commission that gets ever larger? Can we carry on with an organisation that has a multibillion pound budget but not enough focus on controlling spending and shutting down programmes that haven’t worked?
Lewis Gordon Pugh On my second swim at Deception Island, the water was very clear and I was looking at hundreds of whale bones beneath me. It was a graveyard from the whaling some time in the 1920s-30s. – Lewis Gordon Pugh
Deeyah Khan There is no psychiatric pattern which can predict who becomes an extremist – but they are all frustrated with their reality. – Deeyah Khan
Andrew Davies I suppose I have the tastes of someone who teaches at a university in the provinces. – Andrew Davies
Robert Green Ingersoll The American people do not like neutrality. They would rather a man were on the wrong side than on neither. – Robert Green Ingersoll
Germaine Greer Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run? – Germaine Greer
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