Quotes by Andrew Adonis
Andrew Adonis is a British Labour Party politician, academic, and journalist who served as a Minister of State for Education from 2005 to 2008 and as the Chairman of the National Infrastructure Commission from 2017 to 2021. Adonis has been a strong advocate for education reform, including the expansion of academies and the establishment of free schools. He is also known for his work on transportation infrastructure, including the High-Speed 2 (HS2) railway project. (Bio)
Andrew Adonis Quotes
1. “In the end, pragmatism requires a workable compromise. But none exists on Brexit.”
2. “We have moral duties to the dispossessed – and should be taking our fair share of Syrian refugees, particularly parentless children.”
3. “In politics, exhaustion and attrition need to be overcome, not indulged.”
4. “Lots of my contemporaries have had to come to terms with who they are and realise all those deeply held assumptions we had when we were teenagers and in our 20s no longer apply.”
5. “My father came to Britain in search of a better life. My aunts, uncles and cousins fled here in search of safety as Cyprus’s Greek and Turkish populations fell into open hostility.”
6. “I don’t answer deeply hypothetical questions.”
7. “I’m never drunk. I do drink but never more than a glass or two of wine a day if that.”
8. “I thought I’d left politics when Labour lost the 2010 election and I went off and ran a thinktank for two years and founded the National Infrastructure Commission. It was only because of Brexit that I came back. And I had to learn rapidly how to do politics in the 2010s and it soon became clear to me that you had to be ever-present on social media.”
9. “Unprincipled governments are inevitably unstable, unsuccessful and short-lived.”
10. “Labour should have fought with every sinew in 2010 to retain power. To give up power voluntarily because you are tired of government and it is all too difficult is a betrayal of the people you serve.”
11. “I’ve always believed in one nation even when it wasn’t entirely fashionable inside the Labour party… and I believe one nation means building a really solid alliance between the classes.”
12. “I think universities are one of the great civilising forces of life.”
13. “Multinational companies exploit national differences to abuse their workers, to dodge their taxes and to ‘regulation shop’ as a means to avoid meeting their responsibilities.”
14. “We shouldn’t leave the E.U. until we have trade protection at least as good.”
15. “Not one single country in the world is dependent for their trade wholly on WTO guidelines – they aren’t ‘rules,’ because the sanctions for breaching the guidelines are puny.”
16. “Speaking to people in all parts of the country, it has become clear to me that there is a definite appetite for the option to reject Theresa May’s Brexit and hold a referendum.”
― Andrew Adonis Quotes
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