Jacob Rees-Mogg Quotes

Jacob Rees-Mogg

Profession : Politician

Birth : May 24, 1969

A constitutional monarchy requires the monarch to be above politics but to be fully informed about politics.

Jacob Rees-Mogg

The experience in Iraq has taken away the essential trust which political leaders need before embarking on military action. It was meant to be about weapons of mass destruction rather than regime change. Unfortunately, the nation was misled, and secret service information was misused.

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As a general rule, governments are wise to avoid taxation that is voluntary, as they need a steady stream of income.

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Overseas investors have a choice. They can buy property, equities, bonds, or a host of other assets either in the United Kingdom or abroad. Each decision will be taken depending on the available net return, that is, the profit after tax.

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I like some vegetables.

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There is sometimes an almost vindictive streak in politics whereby governments follow policies which they know will harm the electorate, but nonetheless, they keep them, sometimes for years. The Corn Laws are a classic example.

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I'm not interested in the past, I'm interested in the future. Europe is past.

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I would always vote for Tory candidates in the United Kingdom, and I would probably be Republican if I was an American.

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I take the teachings of the Catholic Church seriously.

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It has never been the case that a peerage can be extinguished, even for the lifetime of a peer, by a motion of the Lords. This does not mean that there are not effective ways of penalising errant peers.

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One doesn't need money to run for Parliament, but it is undoubtedly expensive.

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I very much like potatoes.

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The Catholic Church's teachings are authoritative. There is a moral absolute on abortion - that it is wrong.

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It is not for me to enforce my morals on others.

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A power of recall that depended solely on the electorate and was not subject to unnecessary hurdles of Parliamentary procedures would show trust in the good sense and fairness of the British people. In return, they might trust Parliamentarians a little more.

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One of the great constraints on economic growth and employment is that the tax and benefits system has grown up over generations and does not give the right incentives. Increasing the minimum wage does not solve this problem.

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In the U.S., free speech and the press are protected by the First Amendment. It has a clarity unmatched by modern legislators and declares that 'Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or the press.'

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I think that conservative principles have a broad appeal, and you should state them boldly, and the point of a Conservative election is to do conservative things, not to do Labour things but slightly less damaging.

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A poor worker is taxed heavily to receive his own money back with a modest supplement. Surely it would be more efficient just to pay the supplement and take him out of direct tax altogether.

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In England and, later, the United Kingdom, Habeas Corpus is a right of great antiquity: Anyone who is arrested must be brought before a court, but this does not apply in continental countries.

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