Quotes by Sam Gyimah - Page 1

Parliament is relentless, it never stops.
Sam Gyimah /
Parliament
Relentless
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At the Oxford Union I'd never debated before but I gave it a go.
Sam Gyimah /
Oxford
Debated
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I started thinking about getting into politics when David Cameron became leader.
Sam Gyimah /
Cameron
David Cameron
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Born in the UK, brought up in Ghana, it was a sort of childhood of hardship and difficulty.
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Difficulty
Ghana
Hardship
Uk
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Every election cycle there has been some manoeuvre against me, so at some level I am used to it.
Sam Gyimah /
Cycle
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Much of what we buy relies on products from the EU - purchases that British importers make in euros.
Sam Gyimah /
Eu
Purchases
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That's my upbringing. Try, if it doesn't work out, try again. It was the same thing with Parliament.
Sam Gyimah /
Parliament
Upbringing
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The astonishing thing for me is that I had a career before politics and I never thought about my colour.
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Astonishing
Colour
Politics Me Never
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The UKRI visa program, it's going to make it easier for researchers to come to the U.K. and do their work.
Sam Gyimah /
Researchers
Visa
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I want to ensure we have more nurseries in schools, and that they open in time for parents to get to work.
Sam Gyimah /
Ensure
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Leaving people worse off financially is a Brexit outcome nobody supports, whether they voted leave or remain.
Sam Gyimah /
Voted
Brexit
Leave
Financially
Outcome
Remain
Supports
Worse
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The Tory Party only talks to Brexiteers. It almost demonises... It comes across as dismissive of those who are not.
Sam Gyimah /
Talks
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I am instinctively wary of identity politics. Ultimately, no two black men are the same, any more than two white men are the same.
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Identity
Instinctively
Ultimately
Wary
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The sheer drop in sterling since 2016 is only a taste of what's to come if we continue down the destructive route of a no-deal Brexit.
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Destructive
Sheer
Sterling
Brexit
Drop
Route
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I am an outcast in the Conservative party. But that's Brexit. It has divided families. The country is divided. This is a huge fault line.
Sam Gyimah /
Conservative
Conservative Party
Divided
Huge
Outcast
Party
Brexit
Line
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Nothing of substance is being achieved or even proposed, while the country remains trapped in the Kafka-esque misery that Brexit has become.
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Misery
Remains
Substance
Trapped
Achieved
Brexit
Proposed
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The issue for me is not just Brexit. It is beyond Brexit - how you conduct politics and the veering towards populism and English nationalism.
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Nationalism
Brexit
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It's a bit bold to go around saying, 'Prime Minister, if there's an opportunity I really want to be in this department,' but that's what I did.
Sam Gyimah /
Department
Prime Minister
Bold
Minister
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Brexit is an immensely complex national challenge encompassing issues from sovereignty and trade to security in an increasingly interdependent world.
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Sovereignty
Brexit
Encompassing
Immensely
Increasingly
Interdependent
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Everyone who's rational should have an interest in science. The future of our planet depends on our understanding of science... It's something I value immensely.
Sam Gyimah /
Our Planet
Rational
Immensely
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I voted to remain because I thought it was costly and complicated to leave the EU, and that is clearly still the case. But there are opportunities and challenges.
Sam Gyimah /
Costly
Eu
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The more painful incidents of racism I chose to forget, to suffer in silence, or use humour to deflect rather than confront. I didn't want to be the angry black man.
Sam Gyimah /
Humour
Incidents
Racism
Silence
Chose
Confront
Deflect
Suffer
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Parliament is a tribal place. So the most difficult thing is to be labelled disloyal, even if you think you are standing up for a principle. The rejection is quite strong.
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Disloyal
Parliament
Rejection
Difficult Thing
Labelled
Most Difficult Thing
Principle
Standing Up
Tribal
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A society in which people feel they have a legitimate right to stop someone expressing their views on campus simply because they are unfashionable or unpopular is rather chilling.
Sam Gyimah /
Campus
Views
Society People Feel
Chilling
Unpopular
Expressing
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Ever since Theresa May's premiership, I have become suspicious of the 'lectern moment'. That is when the prime minister steps outside Downing Street to address the nation on Brexit.
Sam Gyimah /
Downing
Prime
Prime Minister
Steps
Suspicious
Theresa
Brexit
Minister
Premiership
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As a child, my mother would read to me late into the night. I didn't enjoy it at the time but she always used to say that the inheritance she was going to leave us was a good education.
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Good Education
Inheritance
Education Time Good
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Westminster is gripped by a fanatical race towards a cliff-edge Brexit and nobody is stopping to think about the impact it would have on the everyday lives of the people we serve as politicians.
Sam Gyimah /
Stopping
Westminster
Brexit
Everyday Lives
Fanatical
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As a black member of parliament and minister for nearly a decade, I was determined not to be defined by my race. I didn't want to be 'the black politician', when being black is just a part of who I am.
Sam Gyimah /
Defined
Determined
Parliament
Nearly
Decade
Member
Minister
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One point leavers and remainers agree on is that if there had never been a referendum, and this deal had been proposed as the basis for our country's future, it would have rightly been rejected by parliament and the public.
Sam Gyimah /
Parliament
Rejected
Proposed
Referendum
Rightly
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Universities have a big role to play... making it very clear to their counterparts, their networks, that the U.K. is not walking away from the world. We still value multilateral cooperation, we still see the EU as a significant partner.
Sam Gyimah /
Cooperation
Counterparts
Networks
Eu
Multilateral
Partner
Universities
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I've been involved in the Conservative party for two decades. I've fought for the party. I have an unusual background - I'm not your typical Tory recruit. I've spent a long time evangelising about why people should look at the Conservative party seriously.
Sam Gyimah /
Conservative Party
Decades
Recruit
Typical
Unusual
Time Long Look
Time Long Your
Fought
Time Look Long
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The big thing in Ghana is a strong sense that if you failed in your education that was it. There was no system... to give you support later on, there really wasn't much of a second chance so there was a big emphasis in... this is your life chance and you have got to take it.
Sam Gyimah /
Emphasis
Ghana
Second Chance
Big Thing
Strong Sense
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I was born in the UK and brought up by my single mother in Ghana, where being black was unexceptional. As an adult, I learnt to succeed in white Britain, going from a state sixth form, to Oxford university, to a well-paid job in the City, to becoming the first black Conservative MP to attend the cabinet.
Sam Gyimah /
Ghana
Oxford
Single Mother
Attend
Sixth
Cabinet
Learnt
Uk
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