Esther McVey Quotes

Esther McVey

Profession : Politician

Birth : October 24, 1967

I always thought, as I was growing up, that I'd be married with children. That hasn't happened.

Esther McVey

I've had other friends who had such a burning desire to have children: they have this biological ticking clock. I don't know what happened to mine. Nobody ever wound it up.

Esther McVey

This is how I am. I'm happy with my friends, my family, my job.

Esther McVey

I've met people at the top of companies like Accenture who started off in McDonald's.

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We know that children living in a household with someone in work do better in school, have better educational attainment, and are more likely to have a job later in life than children growing up in a home where no one works.

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I believe Jeremy Corbyn getting his hands on power is a risk we cannot afford to take.

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Leaving the E.U. is an opportunity for our country.

Esther McVey

When we cannot find enough extra money for policing, yet we are having huge sums to other countries in aid, it is time to start a serious conversation.

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It's important to know what you can do and what you can't.

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I was raised in inner-city Liverpool, the first in my family to go to university.

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David Cameron, and before him Iain Duncan Smith, went out of their way to attract women into the party. Yes, we need to sell politics to more women, but quotas are not the way forward. You set a quota, what is the right quota? What is the wrong quota?

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It makes my life easier that I don't have to take my daughter or son to school, that I've not got to look after them because they are ill. But then, I'm not nurtured and cherished, so I will seek external love from other close relationships.

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For too long, people have had to neutralise or lose their accent out of fear of prejudicial treatment or to fit in. This has then led to a lack of regional accents, which has allowed this lazy stereotyping and prejudicial attitudes to prevail.

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People shouldn't have to lose their accents to get a fair crack at the whip at a job or move up within a sector or industry.

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Politics is all about trust. Trust is like the soul: once gone, it never returns.

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We've got to be as good as our word.

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You can't underestimate how patriotic the people of this country are.

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Part of the Brexit debate was about control, having a say over our laws and money and letting politicians stand up for what the people voted for, not signing away our sovereignty.

Esther McVey

What does a teacher do in a school? A teacher would tell you off or give you lines or whatever it is, detentions, but at the same times, they are wanting your best interests at heart. They are teaching you, they are educating you, but at the same time, they will also have the ability to sanction you.

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