Quotes from John Bercow

If you asked me if I'd rather be Speaker or a very senior minister, I'd say Speaker.

It's a cowardly form of politics to use my spouse to beat me.

I'm supremely uninterested as to what is written in many of the newspapers.

I don't think that people are disinterested or uninterested in politics. I think very often they are disengaged from the formal political process. To some extent they are suspicious or even despairing of formal politics as a means to give expression and effect to what they want.

Fairness is not about statistical equality.

I do strongly believe myself that members of the government who sit in the House of Lords should be accountable to the elected House because otherwise there is a democratic deficit, and that is wrong.

Possibly the fact that I was physically quite feeble, a relatively short little fellow, attracted me to that idea of a very authoritative and aggressive version of Conservative politics.