In our weekly roundup of leadership quotations, we hear from Joe Biden, Marcus Rashford, Boris Johnson and Mark Nind.
Joe Biden
The US presidential hopeful said, ‘We can't allow the Good Friday Agreement that brought peace to Northern Ireland to become a casualty of Brexit.
‘Any trade deal between the US and the UK must be contingent upon respect for the Agreement and preventing the return of a hard border. Period.’
Dominic Sandbrook
Writing in the Daily Mail, on the potential of Covid-19 ruining Christmas, the historian said, ‘If I had shares in a tinsel company, I'd be thinking of selling up.’
Boris Johnson
The prime minister said he was on a mission to ‘stop the surge, arrest the spike, stop the second hump of the dromedary, flatten the second hump.’
Marcus Rashford
“It’s crazy to believe, like, how far it actually went,” the England forward told the Financial Times, in regards to his campaign that forced a government U-Turn. “At the beginning I had an idea and I just tweeted it.”
Mark Nind
Speaking about the importance of solid financial advice, The RJB Financial Services managing director told The Parliamentary Review, ‘People occasionally need protection from themselves – in the case of gamblers or addicts, short-term decisions can detrimentally affect long-term logic. We will advise and advise and advise, but sometimes, people will just make those decisions anyway when they’re desperate.’
Benjamin Franklin
The US founding father was quoted in the Guardian saying, ‘So convenient a thing is it to be a reasonable creature, since it enables us to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to.’
Margaret Thatcher
The former prime minister’s remarks from 1974 were quoted by European Commission president Ursual von der Leyen: ‘Britain does not break treaties. It would be bad for Britain, bad for our relations with the rest of the world and bad for any future treaty on trade we may need to make.’
Mrs von der Leyen added, ‘it was true then and it is true today.’
Clive Tyldesley
‘I’m not sure money can make you happy, but a lack of money can make you unhappy,’ the leading sports broadcaster told The Sunday Times.
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