#thin

Actually, the curious thing is that the more you become a subject of admiration or loathing, the more you're examined under a microscope, the distance seems to open up between who you really are and the portrayals that people impose on you. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#admiration #become #between #curious #distance

Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult things that it does. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#beyond #composition #difficult #difficult things #does

The Liberal Democrat Party and the Conservative Party come at things very differently when it comes to Europe. When it comes to political reform, we have a much greater tradition in the Liberal Democrats of social justice and fairness than the Conservatives do. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#comes #conservative #conservative party #conservatives #democrat

Tony Blair and Gordon Brown committed to John Major's spending envelopes in 1997. No-one said that Tony Blair and John Major were identical. This happens quite often that parties actually, despite all the sound and fury, agree on the overall need to make sure that we live within our means as a country. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#agree #blair #brown #committed #country

We have got to make sure there is proper independent scrutiny and accountability for people in the press, just as there should be in any other industry where things go wrong. But let's not try and think it is for politicians or governments to tell people what they stick in newspapers. That is deeply illiberal. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#any #deeply #go #got #governments

Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do. ↗

— Clarence Clemons

#being #community #involved #most #natural

I'm saying that the moral climate within the ruling class in this country is not that different from the moral climate within the ruling class of Hitler's Germany. ↗

— David Clennon

#climate #country #different #germany #hitler

In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#after #anything #be true #belief #believe

The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#become #believe #credulous #danger #enough

Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow. ↗

— Chuck Close

#focused #good #many #mean #more