Liberal Democrats in government will not follow the last Labour government by sounding the retreat on the protection of civil liberties in the United Kingdom. It continues to be essential that our civil liberties are safeguarded, and that the state is not given the powers to snoop on its citizens at will. Nick Clegg Read Quote
I would be open about the fact that, clearly, politicians should be able to speak to each other. David Cameron doesn’t seem to accept this, but if the British people have voted then of course you have to try and provide good stable government. Nick Clegg Read Quote
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. Nick Clegg Read Quote
One of the big changes in politics has been because families, individuals, have felt worried, insecure… worried about the economy, worried about their jobs, worried about their kids’ futures… actually the disconnect between the public and media discourse and people’s everyday concerns has become bigger not smaller. Nick Clegg Read Quote
What we should be doing in the EU as a whole is more economic integration in the single market, rather than less. Nick Clegg Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Nick Clegg Read Quote
I wish more people knew that the only one of the three main parties where not a single MP flipped from one property to the next, and not a single MP avoided capital-gains tax, where every single London MP did not claim a penny of second-home allowance, was the Liberal Democrats. Nick Clegg Read Quote
I don’t lead a particularly Bohemian existence. The main criterion for me is not to be judgemental of other people so long as what they do is not harmful or offensive to others. Nick Clegg Read Quote
Our Sheffield and London homes are worth well over a million but the bank owns most of them – we are mortgaged up to the gills. Nick Clegg Read Quote
