63 Quotes by Kenneth Clarke

Access to justice is a fundamental part of a properly functioning democracy.

Without legal aid, and the dedicated lawyers who deliver it, our system of justice would quite simply collapse.

I am a stalwart supporter of the British judiciary who are the best in the world.

No country anywhere in the world allows material that genuinely puts national security at risk into the public domain, and that includes a courtroom.

Trade deals are not the vehicle for raising or lowering standards of protection for consumers, the environment, workers or anyone else. Regulations are made by governments and parliaments.

I am not a creature of giant business and I think that small- and medium-sized businesses will derive the most benefit from the removal of bureaucratic obstacles to trade.

Only an ideologue deals with the world as he would wish it to be, as opposed to the world as it is.

Unless and until I can see an opportunity of actually reversing Brexit and restoring a stable membership of the European Union, then in the real world I concentrate on minimising the damage.

My entire political career has been based on building up Britain's political standing and economic prosperity through our membership of the E.U. and the European project.