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. Nick Clegg More Quotes by Nick Clegg More Quotes From Nick Clegg The caricature of what George Osborne is doing on the fiscal side is absurd. If you read some of the commentary, particularly from the left, you would think he was turning the clock back to the 1930s. Nick Clegg clock sides thinking Every time [Chris Bryant] asks a question I become more and more baffled why anyone would want to hack his phone and listen to his messages Nick Clegg phones messages want I totally accept that it's a legitimate criticism that when you are involved in the day-to-day scrum of government that what can get lost is the narrative, the hymn sheet the song that inspires and lifts people's sights. Nick Clegg government sight song After the economic 9/11, we will face a new world order. Nick Clegg faces order world The internet does need competition and it does need regulation ... we want to work with governments and policymakers to design the sort of smart regulation that fosters competition, encourages innovation and protects consumers. Nick Clegg technology If the West doesn't engage with this question quickly and emphatically, it may be that it isn't ours to answer. The common rules created in our hemisphere can become the example the rest of the world follows. Nick Clegg technology If you listened to some of our more breathless critics, you could be forgiven for thinking that we are single-handedly dismantling western democracy, collaborating with the Russians, the Iranians, the Bilderberg Group, the Illuminati and the guys who faked the moon landings to manipulate our citizens, rig elections and tear down our democratic institutions. Nick Clegg technology Simply breaking up Though Facebook and other big tech companies into smaller -- but still huge -- companies won't address the issues that cause people the most concern, whether it's privacy, or election integrity, or harmful content. Nick Clegg technology These are complex issues and we are committed to working with world leaders, governments, industry and safety experts at this week's meeting and beyond on a clear framework of rules to help keep people safe from harm. Nick Clegg company-news This is not something that any company can do on its own, we're dealing with some very profound ethical and political issues. Nick Clegg technology For us, the alternative to these melodramatic calls for breaking up companies is exactly what we're discussing here, which is proper regulation. What the tech sector needs is not to be broken up, it is proper rules. Nick Clegg technology It is simply heartbreaking, clearly the results have been immeasurably more crushing and unkind than I could ever have feared. Nick Clegg most-read-articles If they try to stagger through with a messy and unstable minority government instead of putting the country first then they will risk all the hard work and sacrifices people have made over the last five years, the last thing Britain needs is a second election before Christmas. But that is exactly what will happen if (Labour leader) Ed Miliband and David Cameron put their own political interest ahead of the national interest. Nick Clegg world For the first time ever, the Liberal Democrats go into this campaign with a record of action in government to be extremely proud of, we have kept the government in the center ground and shown that we are the only party that can build a stronger economy and a fairer society. Nick Clegg world The Deputy Prime Minister has done The Deputy Prime Minister time, but I just don't believe that the owners of a football club can somehow wish away the fact that that has happened, you are taking on a role model, particularly for a lot of young boys who look up to their heroes on a football pitch in a team like that, and The Deputy Prime Minister has committed a very serious crime. Nick Clegg crime 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 i-wish single wish people 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 politicians try think people With the EU taking in ten more countries and adopting a new Constitution, organisations need more than ever intelligent professional help in engaging with the EU institutions. Nick Clegg professional help new constitution Most people in this country are very fair-minded; they understand we're in the middle of a very difficult journey of repairing, rescuing, restoring our British economy, and they want us, and they want particularly Liberal Democrats in government, to fight for the fairest possible way of doing that. Nick Clegg fight government journey people
