Politics Is A Highly Tribal Business.

I Don't Even Pretend We Can Occupy The Lib Dem Holier-than-thou, Hands-entirely-clean-and-entirely-empty-type Stance. No, We Are Getting Our Hands Dirty, And Inevitably And Totally Understandably We Are Being Accused Of Being Just Like Any Other Politicians.

[ed Miliband]'s Elevated Personal Abuse Into A Sort Of Strategy

If There's One Thing I'm Not Going To Apologise For As The Leader Of The Liberal Democrats In Government After 60 Or 70 Years Of Being Out Of Government, It's That You Just Cannot Avoid But Deal With The World The Way It Is.

[all Governments] Get Into A Rut Where Every Potentially Good Story Turns Into A Bad One.

For Far Too Long The World's Poorest People Have Seen No Benefit From The Vast Natural Resources In Their Own Backyards. It Is Time To End The Injustice Where Ordinary People Are Silent Witnesses, Left To Suffer Without Basic Services, As The Profits From Their Countries' Assets Are Hidden And Plundered By Corrupt Regimes.