Dominic Grieve Quotes

Dominic Grieve

Profession : Politician

Birth : May 24, 1956

The state is there to serve the citizen, not the reverse.

Dominic Grieve

Of course we should harness IT to strengthen public protection and public service delivery.

Dominic Grieve

Surveillance legislation passed in good faith has been stretched well beyond its original purpose.

Dominic Grieve

I worry that there are attempts to push faith out of the public space. Clearly it happens at a level of local power.

Dominic Grieve

Some of the cases which have come to light of employers being disciplined or sacked for simply trying to talk about their faith in the workplace I find quite extraordinary. The sanitisation will lead to people of faith excluding themselves from the public space and being excluded.

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It is in nobody's interest that groups should find themselves excluded from society.

Dominic Grieve

I think politicians should express their faith. I have never adhered to the Blair view that we don't do God, indeed I'm not sure that Blair does.

Dominic Grieve

It's very nice to be a rebel saying, 'I stand on my principles,' but if in fact that's not going to have any impact on the policy, it may be principled, but it doesn't deliver the better outcome that the country needs.

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Ultimately, any government is one which enjoys the majority of support of members of Parliament to carry out a policy.

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It's difficult to see how the U.K. can be a member of the E.U. if it's not adherent to the principles set out in the convention.

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I do worry about population growth and the preservation of the green belt space but I don't think these are insurmountable problems.

Dominic Grieve

We have to look at levels of migration. We are in a world that is quite chaotic. Some people are really frightened about it. Some people are quite despairing. They don't believe our country is capable of providing a good quality of life. That feeds into why people voted Ukip and induces a culture of despair.

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I would like to think that I have followed in the proper tradition of attorneys-general, providing good quality advice to my colleagues in government and have taken on their needs and concerns.

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I came into parliament to do things, so I don't particularly relish being a rebel.

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I am a Conservative, so I don't wish to be seen as a rebel, particularly, at all.

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If you are making policies through speeches that are contradicting some of the policy development your colleagues are embarked on, you are destroying collective responsibility.

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Nobody in this country goes around saying: 'I'm feeling very oppressed by the E.U.' Well, one or two people do, but they're a bit odd. Ultimately, if they're getting oppressed by the E.U., they're going to start to feel oppressed by something else and just switch to a new subject of oppression.

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The principles of conservatism include upholding the rule of law and the United Kingdom's international legal obligations.

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All political parties, if they are to be successful, have to be broad churches.

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