John Bercow

There are people who are just very, very sniffy and snobby and have always sort of looked down their noses at me.

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I never aspired to be Speaker simply so I could say, 'I am the Speaker of the House of Commons,' and tell my children that.

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It's a cowardly form of politics to use my spouse to beat me.

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Fairness is not about statistical equality.

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Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.

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I was proud to be a Tory Member of Parliament for twelve years, proud to represent Buckingham as a Tory, proud to have voted with my party 99% of the time as the record shows.

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I don't think that people are disinterested or uninterested in politics. I think very often they are disengaged from the formal political process. To some extent they are suspicious or even despairing of formal politics as a means to give expression and effect to what they want.

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I'm supremely uninterested as to what is written in many of the newspapers.

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I'm not in the business of warning people.

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Quotes by John Bercow