Author: Bob Ainsworth

Quotes

On the back benches, you can have your say but no power to do anything.

On the back benches, you can have your say but no power to do anything.

- Bob Ainsworth

I come from a pretty tough background and I learned a long time ago not to be bothered.

I come from a pretty tough background and I learned a long time ago not to be bothered.

- Bob Ainsworth

I have always had a keen interest in defence and military history and read more on this subject than anything else.

I have always had a keen interest in defence and military history and read more on this subject than anything else.

- Bob Ainsworth

It's hard to find good teamwork in practice, and I have never thought that we, as a party, were any better at working as a team than the Tories, despite our core values.

It's hard to find good teamwork in practice, and I have never thought that we, as a party, were any better at working as a team than the Tories, despite our core values.

- Bob Ainsworth

If you stand at an election and put a manifesto in front of people saying you're going to improve health care, you have to stick by that.

If you stand at an election and put a manifesto in front of people saying you're going to improve health care, you have to stick by that.

- Bob Ainsworth

We have tended in politics in this country to concentrate on the domestic, on the here and now - the 'what's in it for me'.

We have tended in politics in this country to concentrate on the domestic, on the here and now - the 'what's in it for me'.

- Bob Ainsworth

I never expected to be Defence Secretary. It's a great privilege.

I never expected to be Defence Secretary. It's a great privilege.

- Bob Ainsworth

We are not in Afghanistan because girls were not allowed to go to school, but helping them do so will give the Afghan people hope for a better future.

We are not in Afghanistan because girls were not allowed to go to school, but helping them do so will give the Afghan people hope for a better future.

- Bob Ainsworth

I have strengths, and I have weaknesses. I don't pretend to be able to write a great thesis or doctorate - I have no pretensions in that direction.

I have strengths, and I have weaknesses. I don't pretend to be able to write a great thesis or doctorate - I have no pretensions in that direction.

- Bob Ainsworth

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