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Harriet Harman
27 quotes
“images of children should only be considered pornographic if it could be proven the subject suffered”
Harriet Harman (born 1950) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1978, according to 26 February 2014 article by The Guardian
“Not all civil servants admire strong political leadership. But if you want to change things for the better you need strong political leadership.”
Harriet Harman (born 1950) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On BBC Radio 4's Today programme, 20 March, 2007.
“He is demanding of his colleagues, but he is demanding of himself because he wants to change things for the better.”
Harriet Harman (born 1950) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Comments regarding Gordon Brown, On BBC Radio 4's Today programme, 20 March, 2007.
“Yes I did when I was at university 30 years ago, just for a short time.”
Harriet Harman (born 1950) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On smoking cannabis, 20 July, 2007.
“I am in the Labour Party because I am a feminist. I am in the Labour Party because I believe in equality.”
Harriet Harman (born 1950) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In an interview following her election as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, 10 November 2007.
“It wouldn't be possible because there aren't enough airports for all the men who'd want to flee the country.”
Harriet Harman (born 1950) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Regarding her possibility of becoming Prime Minister, during Prime Minister's Questions, August, 2008. Link to the video.
“The Labour Party is the sister Party for the Democrats and their progressive views are the ones that we are most aligned with.”
Harriet Harman (born 1950) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Question Time, 18 September 2008.
“I am a very big admirer of Hillary's and I am an admirer of Obama as well.”
Harriet Harman (born 1950) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Question Time, 18 September 2008.
“I don’t agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it’s a thoroughly bad thing to have men-only leadership.”
Harriet Harman (born 1950) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a newspaper interview, 2 August, 2009.
“While the happy couple are enjoying the thrill of the rose garden, the in-laws are saying that they are just not right for each other. We keep telling them that they cannot pay couples to stay together, and it is clear that it will take more than a three-quid-a-week tax break to keep this marriage together.”
Harriet Harman (born 1950) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: During the Queen's Speech Debate, on the newly formed Coalition Government and their policy to provide a tax break to married couples, 25 May 2010.
“This is a very crucial period and we have got five fantastic candidates. All of them would make excellent leaders of the Party.”
Harriet Harman (born 1950) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Comments regarding the Labour Leadership Election, 13 June 2010.
“The Chancellor has delivered his first budget but it's the same old Tories; hitting hardest at those who can least afford it and breaking their promises. This is true to form for the Tories, but it includes things that the Liberal Democrats have always fought against. Surely they cannot vote for this.”
Harriet Harman (born 1950) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reaction to the Coalition's budget, 22 June, 2010. Link to the video
“Although it was a very close election, I don't think it was a polarised election. It was a tough fought contest but it was not a divisive contest. Although he won by a whisker I think the party will unite behind Ed Miliband.”
Harriet Harman (born 1950) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the Labour Leadership Election result, September 27, 2010.
“Although he is disappointed, I know he will step forward and play a really important part in Labour’s future.”
Harriet Harman (born 1950) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On David Miliband's narrow defeat to become Leader of the Labour Party, September 27, 2010.
“Now, many of us in the Labour Party are conservationists - and we all love the red squirrel. But there is one ginger rodent which we never want to see again - Danny Alexander.”
Harriet Harman (born 1950) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: At the Scottish Labour Conference, 30 October, 2010. Harman later apologised for the comment.
“If he votes against, that's the only principled position. If he abstains, it's a cop-out; if he votes for, it's a sell-out.”
Harriet Harman (born 1950) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Nick Clegg and his vote to increase tuition fees, 30 November 2010.
“I'm afraid you gave up the right to pontificate on social mobility when you abolished educational maintenance allowance [EMA], trebled tuition fees and betrayed a generation of young people.”
Harriet Harman (born 1950) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Nick Clegg's social mobility pledges, during a debate in the House of Commons, 5 April 2011.
“For many young people, social mobility now means a bus down to the job centre.”
Harriet Harman (born 1950) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Nick Clegg's social mobility pledges, during a debate in the House of Commons, 5 April 2011.
“Next he will be foxtrotting down to the Tory party's fundraising ball, auctioning City internships for the children of the highest bidder. Is that not the Government's idea of social mobility?”
Harriet Harman (born 1950) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Nick Clegg's social mobility pledges, during a debate in the House of Commons, 11 April 2011.
“I'm sure nobody wants to know this, but my husband does all the cleaning - rather too much cleaning. It is too clean, the house!”
Harriet Harman (born 1950) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Evening Standard (31 October 2011), p. 16
“You have been there and seen it with your own eyes [...] If I was going at 100mph, and saw the speedometer saying 100mph, it would be a bit odd, wouldn't it, if I said somebody assured me that I wasn't? Because it's what you've seen with your own eyes.”
Harriet Harman (born 1950) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Boris Johnson fights for his future at privileges committee hearing" The Times (22 March 2023)
“[After an intervention by Jacob Rees-Mogg on her tweets, which he said had a "perception of bias": I] made it my business to find out whether or not it would mean that the government would not have confidence in me if I continued to chair the committee. [...] I was assured that I should continue the work that the House had mandated with the appointment that the House had put me into and so I did just that.”
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“Mr Johnson’s dishonesty if left unchecked would have contaminated the whole of government, allowing misleading to become commonplace and thus eroding standards which are essential for the health of our democracy. There is no impunity for wrongdoing. Even if you’re the prime minister – especially if you’re the prime minister – you must tell the truth to parliament.”
Harriet Harman (born 1950) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: During the debate in the House of Commons on the Privileges Committee investigation into Boris Johnson which Harman chaired, as cited in "Harriet Harman clashes with Rees-Mogg in ‘mic drop’ moment condemning Boris lies"…
“[Referring to women MPs] We're now up to 35 per cent and a lot of men find this objectionable and want to unleash misogyny. [...] The irony is that the more women you get, the more it triggers some men who whilst they can blot out of their ears a couple of women, somehow it feels like an assault on them to actually have to listen to a number of women in authority talking confidently, and they then do a backlash.”
Harriet Harman (born 1950) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From an interview by Geraldine Scott, as cited in "'Toxically misogynistic campaign' would undermine trust of voters, MPs warn", The Times (29 February 2024)
“Hague: I'd like to congratulate the Leader of the House on being the first female Labour member ever to answer Prime Minister's Questions. She must be proud, three decades on, to be following in the footsteps of Margaret Thatcher, who we on this side of the House and the Prime Minister so admire. Harman: Well I thank him for his congratulations but I would ask him, why is he asking the questions today? Because he is not the Shadow Leader of the House - the Shadow Leader of the House is sitting next to him! Is this the situation in the modern Conservative Party; that women should be seen but not heard? And if I may, perhaps I could offer the Shadow Leader of the House a bit of sisterly advice: she should not let him get away with it! Hague: Turning to domestic issues, I was going to be nice to the Rt. Hon. Lady - she has had a difficult week and she had to explain yesterday that she dresses in accordance with wherever she goes; she wears a helmet to a building site; wears Indian clothes to Indian parts of her constituency; presumably, when she goes to a Cabinet meeting, she dresses as a clown. Harman: Well I would just start by saying that if I'm looking for advice on what to wear and what not to wear, the very last man I would look to for advice would be the man in the baseball cap!”
Harriet Harman (born 1950) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: During Prime Minister's Questions, 2 April 2008, with Deputy Conservative Party Leader, William Hague
“Harman: Commenting on the question of Sarah Palin, I think that men in politics underestimate women in politics at their peril, and I think that - although I strongly, strongly disagree with very many of the policies she's putting forward - I think she's speaking to the fact that many women feel that they're working hard, they're bringing up their families, they've got a viewpoint on life and the political system excludes them and she has touched that nerve in America. I mean, I don't agree with her politics but I think that she has touched a nerve and I think that then places a big challenge to the Democrats to make sure that they, as a Party which has long championed equality and equality for women that they actually match them and gear up their act. David Dimbleby: You admire her? Harman: I think that she's tough, I don't agree with her politics, I wouldn't vote for her if I was in the States, but I think that she is impressive, yes. But I would rather see the Democrats getting, you know, an even more impressive woman right up at the front.”
Harriet Harman (born 1950) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: During an episode of Question Time, 18 September, 2008
“This reckless Tory Budget would not be possible without the Lib Dems. The Lib Dems denounced early cuts; now they are backing them. They denounced VAT increases; now they are voting for them. How could they support everything they fought against? How could they let down everyone who voted for them? How could they let the Tories so exploit them? Do they not see that they are just a fig leaf? The Liberal Democrat Chief Secretary is just the Chancellor's fig leaf. The Deputy Prime Minister is just the Prime Minister's fig leaf. The Lib Dems' leaders have sacrificed everything they ever stood for to ride in ministerial cars and to ride on the coat tails of the Tory Government. Twenty-two Liberal Democrat ministerial jobs have been bought at the cost of tens of thousands of other people's. The Liberal Democrats used to stand up for people's jobs, but now they only stand up for their own. Look at the Business Secretary, the right hon. Member for Twickenham. Mr Speaker,the House has noticed his remarkable transformation in the past few weeks from national treasure to Treasury poodle. They have no mandate for this Budget; this Budget has no legitimacy. Even if the Lib Dems will not speak up for jobs, we will. Even if they will not fight for fairness, we will, and even if they will not protest against Tory broken promises, we will.”
Harriet Harman (born 1950) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reaction to the Coalition's budget, 22 June, 2010. Link to the video