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"I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors in the town and had refused to work in South Africa years ago because of the situation there. And he's never mentioned it - you just find out. That's a real man to me. A sleeping lion."

Johnny Vegas on Politics

More quotes about Politics

  • "Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."

    John F. Kennedy on Politics

  • "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself."

    Mark Twain on Politics

  • "One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."

    Plato on Politics

  • "If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."

    Milton Friedman on Politics

  • "It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."

    Joseph Stalin on Politics

More quotes by Johnny Vegas

  • "I used to be good with kids, but as I get older, I'm grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a gig at a 6-year old's birthday party, you couldn't pay me enough."

  • "I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind."

  • "You always hear people saying, 'I hope I'm not turning into my dad', but I'd be honoured if I became half as decent a bloke as he is."

  • "I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors in the town and had refused to work in South Africa years ago because of the situation there. And he's never mentioned it - you just find out. That's a real man to me. A sleeping lion."

  • "My work's never been accepted by my family, but it's something I'll always carry on with."

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