The thing that interests me most about Scotland is how we differ from our neighbours. How do our ambitions differ? What kind of society are we? What can we learn from the mistakes of the past, and how do we position ourselves in the world? Rory Stewart Read Quote
As a Scot, I instinctively feel a sympathy towards a culture which is based on generosity. It’s very refreshing. Afghans think they’re the best people in the world and their country is the best place in the world, and it’s strange because you go there and it doesn’t really look like it, and yet they assume that everybody else envies them. Rory Stewart Read Quote
I don’t know much about Britain. I’ve been working overseas for most of my adult life. So I’d like to see what sort of problems there really are here. It’s a question of asking, ‘Where are we going, how purposeful are we?’ And see if there’s anything that can be done to find possibilities for change. Rory Stewart Read Quote
I like connecting to places by foot, and I’m interested in experiencing how somewhere like Crieff connects to somewhere like London. Rory Stewart Read Quote
If a relationship is going wrong, if a marriage is going wrong, the answer cannot simply be to say, ‘You can’t afford to break up because you are going to lose the house.’ The answer has to be only one thing, which is ‘I love you.’ Rory Stewart Read Quote
I did stuff for three years in Kabul that I found exciting, and a lot of that was fixing roofs, talking about sewage installation. Rory Stewart Read Quote
Politics feels, on what I have seen of it, like joining a tribe, and a lot of it is about unspoken ways of behaving. Rory Stewart Read Quote
I think one of the odd things about public life, coming from the outside, is that people seem to be paranoid. Maybe they were quite frank initially, but then they did one thing which went wrong. Rory Stewart Read Quote
It was a bit of a surprise when I became a Tory MP. My friends said it was a stupid idea. Rory Stewart Read Quote
