Backbenchers Quotes

• The best brains of the nation may be found on the last benches of the classroom.

  Abdul Kalam

  Inspirational, Brain, Benches

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• I wasn't the brightest kid in school. I was a backbencher troubling the frontbencher, and eventually I failed in my 10th grade. But then in higher secondary, there were only three people who got first division in arts, and I was one of them. So this tells you, where you put your mind and heart into, that's where you go.

  Shiv Khera

  Art, School, Kids

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• Si hubiera un título universitario para la codicia, todos vosotros, cabrones, obtendríais honores de primera clase.

  Paul Keating

  University Degrees, Class, Greed

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• Thatcher recibió presiones de los diputados de la derecha para que hiciera callar al Prince de Gales, y al final se llegó a un acuerdo entre ellos para que se callara.

  Anthony Holden

  Wings, Literature, Pressure

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• Nunca he creído en la teoría del Mago de Oz de la consultoría, de que yo lo sé todo y lo veo todo, y de que todo el mundo a mi alrededor es una especie de backbencher...

  David Axelrod

  Knowing, Wizards, Kind

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• The Prime Minister, a specialist in calling in the locksmith after the horses had fled - the whole herd in fact - and the barn in ruins, ended the week with a great raft of ethics proposals for cabinet, leadership candidates, backbenchers and lobbyists. I think it is more than fair to ask: Why wait for the middle of his third term to institute what the public would have welcomed at the beginning of his first?

  Rex Murphy

  Horse, Thinking, Waiting

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• ...a Conservative backbencher called Margaret Thatcher managed, despite front bench opposition, to get enacted her Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960, which was aimed at opening up council meetings to both press and public.

  Clive Ponting

  Opening Up, Benches, Body

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