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Rory Stewart

Rory Stewart

British Politician

Born: Jan 3, 1973

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If a relationship is going wrong, if a marriage is going wrong, the answer cannot simply be to say, 'You can't afford to break up because you are going to lose the house.' The answer has to be only one thing, which is 'I love you.' Rory Stewart

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As a Scot, I instinctively feel a sympathy towards a culture which is based on generosity. It's very refreshing. Afghans think they're the best people in the world and their country is the best place in the world, and it's strange because you go there and it doesn't really look like it, and yet they assume that everybody else envies them. Rory Stewart

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Democracy is not simply a question of structures. It is a state of mind. It is an activity. And part of that activity is honesty. Rory Stewart

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For politicians to be honest, the public needs to allow them to be honest, and the media, which mediates between the politicians and the public, needs to allow those politicians to be honest. If local democracy is to flourish, it is about the active and informed engagement of every citizen. Rory Stewart

I am from Scotland, and I am Christian, not Muslim. Rory Stewart

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I had a lot of romantic notions about what it would mean to cross Asia by foot. Rory Stewart

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I want to 'normalise' myself. I would love to have a family. Rory Stewart

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The politicians think the journalists have power, the journalists think bankers have power, bankers think lawyers have power. The truth is, nobody has power. Rory Stewart

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I found that Scottishness and Englishness are actually strong, instinctive things, whatever the historical reasons. Even the accent changes - just two inches across the border. Rory Stewart

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I have a constituency with 52,000 people and a million sheep. I was in one village where a local kid was run over by a tractor. They took him to Carlisle, but they couldn't be bothered to wait at the hospital. So they put him in a darkened room for two weeks, then said he was fine. But I'm not so sure he was. Rory Stewart

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I think one of the odd things about public life, coming from the outside, is that people seem to be paranoid. Maybe they were quite frank initially, but then they did one thing which went wrong. Rory Stewart

The thing that interests me most about Scotland is how we differ from our neighbours. How do our ambitions differ? What kind of society are we? What can we learn from the mistakes of the past, and how do we position ourselves in the world? Rory Stewart

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