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.

Nick Clegg

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We are keen to stress that a strong euro zone is good for a strong United Kingdom. It's not for us to write the changes that the euro zone needs to embark on.

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Nothing will do more damage to the pro-European movement than giving room to the suspicion that we have something to hide, that we do not have the “cojones” to carry our argument to the people.

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I firmly believe that the principles behind Contraction & Convergence provide the best long-term framework for a fair and equitable climate change mitigation policy

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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.

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Grown-up politicians talk to each other across party lines. Over the last few weeks I have had lengthy conversations with Ed Miliband, David Miliband, with Tony Blair, with Peter Mandelson... talking about Europe, talking about political reform.

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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.

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The Labour Party has become consumed by collective bile towards... the Liberal Democrats. That portrays a rather nasty arrogance.

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On the BSkyB bid, Rupert Murdoch is now in town in London seeking to sort things out. I would simply say to him, look how people feel about this. Look how the country has reacted with revulsion to the revelations. So do the decent and sensible thing and reconsider, think again, about your bid for BSkyB.

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I think it is a simple statement of principle that in a democracy you should make your MPs work harder for your vote and try and get at least majority support in their local area, and that in a nutshell is what AV does.

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[All governments] get into a rut where every potentially good sto... by Nick Clegg

[All governments] get into a rut where every potentially good story turns into a bad one.

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I care more about getting this right [NHS reform] than I do about... by Nick Clegg

I care more about getting this right [NHS reform] than I do about getting it done.

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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.

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[Ed Miliband]'s elevated personal abuse into a sort of strategy by Nick Clegg

[Ed Miliband]'s elevated personal abuse into a sort of strategy

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

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My dad's side of the family had lots of artists and musicians. There's an emotional, quite sentimental quality to Slavic culture. It's very open, it loves art, it loves music, it loves literature. It's very warm, it's very up, it's very down. I would celebrate that.

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I think that the days when newspaper barons could basically click their fingers and governments would snap to attention have gone.

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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.

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The Liberal Democrats will add a heart to a Conservative governme... by Nick Clegg

The Liberal Democrats will add a heart to a Conservative government and a brain to a Labour one.

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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.

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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.

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