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| Contributor | Craverguy |
| Last Edited | Craverguy May 07, 2010 08:45pm |
| Category | Humor |
| News Date | Jan 10, 2006 12:00am |
| Description | Tony Banks, who died this weekend, was one of Westminster's sharpest tongues. Here Iain Dale, who edited a collection of his wit and wisdom, picks a selection of his most memorable lines
My mind is open and so is my mouth - as you've probably gathered. Hopefully I can synchronise them.
(Daily Telegraph, May 1997)
More likely to be out nicking TVs than watching them.
(On children in his constituency. Quoted in Private Eye, February 1990)
Britain is heading pell-mell towards the status of a banana republic, but without the benefit of bananas.
It's getting quite fashionable to shag an MP these days.
(New Statesman, February 1994)
I don't have a monstrous ego. I really don't. I have no ego at all. I find publicity unnerving because I don't regard myself as a politician - and neither do most of my colleagues.
(Total Football, August 1997)
No one can describe me as a brown-noser.
(The Guardian, May 1998)
If animals could vote, I am quite sure I would have become prime minister by now.
(Hansard, November 1996)
I am a former piscatorial participant. I do not wish to sound immodest, but I was known in my day as a piscatorial artist - one of the finest.
(Hansard, June 1997 on his fishing career) |
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