My dads side of the family had lots of artists and musicians. Theres an emotional, quite sentimental quality to Slavic culture. Its very open, it loves art, it loves music, it loves literature. Its very warm, its very up, its very down. I would celebrate that. – Nick Clegg
Do I get up every morning and ask: am I doing the things that I believe in and am I doing them for the best possible motives? Yes. Unambiguously yes. – Nick Clegg
I dont watch a huge amount of telly. I read a lot. Im reading at the moment Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen, a great big brick of a book, and Im loving it. – Nick Clegg
I didnt become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. Its 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. – Nick Clegg