3 December 2020 Nick Clegg I don’t watch a huge amount of telly. I read a lot. I’m reading at the moment ‘Freedom,’ by Jonathan Franzen, a great big brick of a book, and I’m loving it.
3 December 2020 Nick Clegg I’m very lucky. I am one of those people who is able to go home, shut the front door and completely focus on the kids.
3 December 2020 Nick Clegg I say this as a young dad seeing children going into primary school: I don’t think we should underestimate the formative effect on a child of those first years in primary school.
3 December 2020 Nick Clegg Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don’t think it’s going to happen soon.
3 December 2020 Nick Clegg One thing I’ve very quickly learned is that if you wake up every morning worrying about what’s in the press, you would go completely and utterly potty.
3 December 2020 Nick Clegg Liberalism is a really old British tradition and it has a completely different attitude towards the individual and the relationship between the individual and the state than the collectivist response of Labour, and particularly Old Labour, does.
3 December 2020 Nick Clegg What I hope is in five years’ time, I can go to the British people in the election and say: Lots of you doubted that coalition politics worked, but it has worked.
3 December 2020 Nick Clegg The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history and geography, we are a European nation.
3 December 2020 Nick Clegg We need to teach our kids, because there is such a celebrity culture at the moment, that however rich you are, however famous you are, however glamorous you are, everyone has to live by the same rules.
3 December 2020 Nick Clegg When I became leader, I made very clear I was not going to choose the easy life. I have always taken risks. I don’t like comfort-zone politics.
3 December 2020 Nick Clegg If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it’s the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that.
3 December 2020 Nick Clegg You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It’s highly, highly polarised. It’s right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.
3 December 2020 Nick Clegg Do I get up every morning and ask: am I doing the things that I believe in and am I doing them for the best possible motives? Yes. Unambiguously yes.
