British - Politician | January 3, 1973 -
For politicians to be honest, the public needs to allow them to be honest, and the media, which mediates between the politicians and the public, needs to allow those politicians to be honest. If local democracy is to flourish, it is about the active and informed engagement of every citizen.
Rory Stewart
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I am from Scotland, and I am Christian, not Muslim.
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Nostalgia for dead tyrants and the longing for heroes are unhealthy, and they can result in the deification of a Saddam as easily as a Havel or Mandela.
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September 11th has produced only miniature heroes because our culture has freed itself from many of the old, dangerous, elitist fantasies of heroism... But in so doing, we have not only tamed and diminished heroes. We have risked taming and diminishing ourselves.
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I had a lot of romantic notions about what it would mean to cross Asia by foot.
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I want to 'normalise' myself. I would love to have a family.
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I have planted over 6,000 trees at home in Scotland, some of them oak. I'd like my children to be able to watch them grow.
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If things are going wrong in a country, it's not usually that we don't have enough foreigners. It's usually that we have too many.
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In some sense, I'm a romantic. I like the idea of organic history and tradition.
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If we say the purpose of life is our children, that's neither a purpose nor a meaning. But I'm sure I will be as besotted as everybody else when I have them.
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Being a backbench MP is a bit of an anti-climax for a superhero.
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The politicians think the journalists have power, the journalists think bankers have power, bankers think lawyers have power. The truth is, nobody has power.
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