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32 quotes by Rory Stewart

Roderick 'Rory' James Nugent Stewart, OBE, MP, FRSL (born 3 January 1973) is a British academic, author, diplomat, and Conservative politician and chair of the Defence Select Committee. Since May 2010, he has been the Member of Parliament for Penrith and The Border, in the county of Cumbria, North West England. Stewart was a senior coalition official in occupied Iraq in 2003–04. He is known for his book about this experience, The Prince of the...
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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... →

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September 11th has produced only miniature heroes because our culture has freed itself from many of the old, dangerous, elitist fantasies of... →

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I am from Scotland, and I am Christian, not Muslim.

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Democracy matters because it reflects an idea of equality and an idea of liberty. It reflects an idea of dignity, the dignity of the individual, the... →

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I have a constituency with 52,000 people and a million sheep. I was in one village where a local kid was run over by a tractor. They took him to... →

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The Taliban, broadly speaking, are Afghans - farmers, subsistence farmers. As I say, most of those people can't find the United States on the... →

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I have planted over 6,000 trees at home in Scotland, some of them oak. I'd like my children to be able to watch them grow.

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If things are going wrong in a country, it's not usually that we don't have enough foreigners. It's usually that we have too many.

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In some sense, I'm a romantic. I like the idea of organic history and tradition.

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Politics feels, on what I have seen of it, like joining a tribe, and a lot of it is about unspoken ways of behaving.

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When you're doing mountain rescue, you don't take a doctorate in mountain rescue; you look for somebody who knows the terrain. It's about... →

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For politicians to be honest, the public needs to allow them to be honest, and the media, which mediates between the politicians and the public... →

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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... →

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