Top 74 Quotes & Sayings by Anna Soubry

Service people are capable. They gain world-class professional skills while in uniform. They use those skills in the most challenging places, showing the kind of teamwork and leadership most of us can only dream of.

I've been around the block. And I have had the privilege of having been a senior Minister.

I'm not serving in the same party as Boris Johnson. He's proved that he's incapable of holding high office, never mind being prime minister. He's not true to what he believes in.

Through argument and example, we must show that Corbyn's hard left socialism will destroy business - the engine at the heart of our economy.

As I predicted, young people who overwhelmingly didn't want Brexit have turned out in their droves and exacted revenge on a generation of Leavers who they believe stole their future while enjoying generous pensions as they denied them the first rung on the property ladder.

You have to get the balance right, especially with public health, so that you take the measures that benefit the public's health but without causing people to resent you so that you actually don't cure the ill that you seek to cure.

Students from other E.U. countries are worth billions to our economy and help drive it through their hard work and innovation.

Decent, hard-working Labour MPs have been targeted by Corbyn fanatics in an attempt to purge the party of anyone who doesn't support their narrow, divisive ideology.

I just want my party back, please.

I shall be true to what I believe.

When I was at school, you could tell the demography of children by how thin they were. You could see by looking at their eyes.

To see off Corbyn's Labour, we need to start the debate as to how and why a market economy is the way to deliver prosperity, social mobility, fully funded public services, and the means to address their concerns about the environment and social justice.

If it comes to it, I am not going to stay in a party which has been taken over by the likes of Jacob Rees-Mogg and Boris Johnson. They are not proper Conservatives.

We need to wake up to the reality of what migration is about. They come here to work. The idea that they take British jobs is not true; they add huge value to our economy.

I've noticed that every public health minister has been a woman.

Brexit is a self-inflicted wound; the people of this country hold the knife, and they don't have to use it if they don't want to. The people, not the hardline Brexiteers, are in charge.

If we had a vote in parliament, the majority of MPs would not vote for a hard Brexit.

I am simply not prepared to stand back and watch my country fall off a cliff edge. If that means voting against my party, so be it.

I came into politics to fight lefties... That's where political fighting goes.

The Labour party is a lost cause for anybody who is moderate and sensible and believes in that left-of-centre view of life.

'Home' is an important word for our soldiers, sailors, airmen and women. They regularly put their lives at risk in order to make us feel safe in our own homes while fighting to provide overseas communities with that same security.

I didn't go into politics to tell people how much salt to put on their chips.

There is a sense of resignation among most people who voted Remain that we have to 'man up' - even the women among us - and make the most of what we know will be a rotten Brexit.

I am proud of my loyalty to my party and my country.

We are lucky to have a free press. But in some parts of it, you have to search hard to find items concerning any negative aspects to Brexit.

The greatest betrayal of the liberal left in this country is by the Labour party.

Service life will continue to be a force for good, providing a career, training, and education to men and women from all walks of life - who generally love their time in service and do well when they leave. For those who don't, the government continues to help.

Few Conservatives MPs have taken any pleasure from the witch-hunt against moderate Labour MPs by the hard-Left Momentum group.

Most people are fed up to the back teeth with the never-ending wrangle over Brexit. All they want is for a competent government to get on with it and deliver a great deal for everyone in the U.K.

The Tory party must learn from its own history that when we fight each other, you can guarantee to lose.

If Theresa May is big enough to admit her mistakes and put a kinder Conservatism into the heart of her government, she may survive, reunite our broken country, and deliver a considerably better Brexit deal.

We've been slagging off the E.U. for decades, and now we've gone and voted to leave. And if anyone thinks they are going to offer us some great trade deal as we walk away, they are living in la la land.

There's a way that we can deliver a Brexit that works for our country, and the really interesting thing is the amount of Tory MPs working with Labour MPs, forming that consensus.

To enter the U.K., you have to show your passport - whoever you are, wherever you're from - and you always will. That's because we have opted out of the passport-free Schengen area and have retained full control over who comes in.

Our aerospace industry is a British success story which relies on Airbus - a collaboration with other E.U. countries.

People do not use foul language in the House of Commons chamber. They just don't do it, and I don't, either.

Not everybody who is overweight comes from deprived backgrounds, but that's where the propensity lies.

When I go to my constituency - in fact, when I walk around - you can almost now tell somebody's background by their weight.

For many of us, our country and the interests of our constituents are more important than our party.

There are houses where they don't any longer have dining tables. They will sit in front of the telly and eat.

We should absolutely train up U.K. workers - but it takes time to do that. And the reality is that there are a lot of E.U. workers that come here to do jobs that British-born workers will not do.

I cannot conceive of circumstances where Labour MPs are marshalled to go through the lobby to vote against us staying in the single market and customs union with the likes of Jacob Rees Mogg, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove.

I think it's ridiculous and appalling that people have to go abroad to end their life instead of being able to end their life at home.

Something is going to have to give because, if it doesn't, not only will we get Jacob Rees-Mogg as our prime minister, we will get a devastating hard Brexit which will cause huge damage to our economy for generations to come. And I am not prepared to sit by any longer and put up with this nonsense.

Any soldier deployed overseas will think fondly of home. It is only right and fair that they are able to settle back into a home life once they leave their service.

It's thriving, responsibly regulated business that does the research and development to provide the tools as well as the means to a better country.

The Leave campaign claims we send £350 million a week to Europe. This is untrue. When you take into account the rebate Margaret Thatcher got for us and the money we get back in E.U. funding, the true figure is nowhere near that.

We are leaving the E.U. I accept that. But I made a decision I was never again going to vote against my conscience, and that stands.

I don't hate anybody. I dislike people's politics.

The E.U. Referendum clearly divided us, and little has been done by those that lead us to bring us back together.

The only person I think I actually do dislike is John McDonnell. I actually do think he's a nasty piece of work because he's an IRA apologist.

Where I am in Nottingham, there is a Sainsbury's, and you see children going in there buying take away food - a sandwich, but more likely a packet of crisps, a fizzy drink - and that's their breakfast.

People come from all over the world - from Europe and further afield - to work, study, and innovate in our country. More than 50,000 work in our National Health Service, making a vital contribution in caring for our ageing society.

For all the brave talk of Brexiteers that the E.U. needs us more than we need them, the reality is that they hold all the cards, and they are going to punish us for leaving.

Hate is awful.

Jacob Rees-Mogg gets his tummy tickled when the ERG threatens to vote against a government bill unless it is amended on policy.

You have to be true to what you believe in.

If we have Brexit, we don't know what we will get.

I made my position clear to the people of Broxtowe: that I would continue to make the case for the single market.

How can we have 'freer' free trade? Let's get real, for God's sake.