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Sir Nicholas William Peter Clegg (born 7 January 1967) is a British politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2015 and as Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2007 to 2015. An "Orange Book" liberal, Clegg served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Hallam from 2005 to 2017 and has been associated with both socially liberal and economically liberal policies.

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Our Sheffield and London homes are worth well over a million but the bank owns most of them - we are mortgaged up to the gills.

Home, London, Million, Owns, Sheffield

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.

Doubted, Election, People, Worked, Years

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

Doe, Government, Opinion, Order, Things

The Conservative Party is not honouring the commitment to Lords reform and, as a result, part of our contract has now been broken. Clearly I cannot permit a situation where Conservative rebels can pick and choose the parts of the contract they like, while Liberal Democrat MPs are bound to the entire agreement.

Agreement, Commitment, Conservative, Party

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.

Cojones, Giving, People, Room, Suspicion

If there's one thing I'm not going to apologise for as the leader of the Liberal Democrats in government after 60 or 70 years of being out of government, it's that you just cannot avoid but deal with the world the way it is.

Apologise, Democrats, Government, Leader, World, Years

I totally rule out any arrangements with the SNP — in the same way I rule out any arrangements with Ukip - because there is no meeting point for me with one party that basically wants to pull our country to bits and another party that wants us to pull out of the EU. I would never recommend to the Liberal Democrats that we help establish a government which is basically on a life support system, where Alex Salmond could pull the plug any time he wants.

Arrangements, Country, Help, Life, Party, Pull

If the euro zone doesn't come up with a comprehensive vision of its own future, you'll have a whole range of nationalist, xenophobic and extreme movements increasing across the European Union. And, frankly, questions about the British debate on EU membership will just be a small sideshow compared to the rise of political populism.

Compared, Extreme, Movement, Movements, Political, Vision

One of the big changes in politics has been because families, individuals, have felt worried, insecure. . . worried about the economy, worried about their jobs, worried about their kids' futures. . . actually the disconnect between the public and media discourse and people's everyday concerns has become bigger not smaller.

Changes, Discourse, Insecure, Jobs, Kids

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.

Culture, Europe, Geography, History, Nation, Unions

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

Attention, Barons, Government, Snap, Thinking

My head spins. One moment I'm told I'm too edgy, then people say I'm too angry, then that I show too much passion. . . make your minds up.

Angry, Make, Mind, Minds, Passion, People

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.

Hard Work, Majority, Principle, Simple, Statement, Thinking

I am a passionate believer in freedom of speech. I would not support anything which would impinge on aggressive robust freedom of the British press, but when things go wrong and there has been outright illegality, there should be proper accountability.

Accountability, Freedom, Freedom Of Speech, Robust, Support

If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it's the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that.

Keys, Liberalism, Opportunity, Promote, Scratch, Trying

I didn't become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. It's not the be all and end all for us. There are other very, very key ambitions in politics, not least social mobility and life chances, that I care about as passionately if not more.

Ambition, Democrats, Keys, Leader, Passionately, Reform

Tony Blair and Gordon Brown committed to John Major's spending envelopes in 1997. No-one said that Tony Blair and John Major were identical. This happens quite often that parties actually, despite all the sound and fury, agree on the overall need to make sure that we live within our means as a country.

1997, Blair, Country, Happens, Mean, Party

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.

Morning, Worry, Wake Up, Completely, Worrying, Potty

You've got some very powerful countries: Poland, the United Kingdom, Sweden and others who have a genuine desire to see the euro zone straighten itself out. It's good for all of us, whether you're in the euro zone or not, to make sure that it doesn't lead to a fracturing.

Country, Desire, Genuine, Lead, Powerful, Zone

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.

Back, Clock, Side, Sides, Thinking

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