Quote by Lucy Powell
We in the Labour party know better than most that opposition is th

We in the Labour party know better than most that opposition is the easy part. Whats more difficult is governing and setting out an agenda for government. – Lucy Powell

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Being out and about talking to residents and representing their views is, in my view, as important to politics as the grandstanding that takes place in Westminster. – Lucy Powell

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Politics
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These are tough times and under this Tory-led government many people in Manchester are suffering and getting left behind. If elected I will use all my energy, skills, experience and knowledge to stand up for our communities and get things done for the better. – Lucy Powell

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Experience
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Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times. – Lucy Powell

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Sports
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The federal government now spends one of every four dollars in the entire economy. It borrows one of every three dollars it spends. No nation, no entity, large or small, public or private, can thrive, or survive intact, with debts as huge as ours. – Mitch Daniels

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Government

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. – Honore de Balzac

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Government

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government. – Aristotle

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Government

Talk is cheap — except when Congress does it. – Cullen Hightower

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Government

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Pity is a thing often vowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner. – Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution, vol 1, book VII, chapter 4

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My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership. – James Dobson

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I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports – he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12. – January Jones

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