Best 17 quotes of John Bercow on MyQuotes

Fairness is not about statistical equality.

For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman amateurs.

I am seeking every day to restore faith in Parliament - to ensure we have a House of Commons which is representative, effective and reconnected to the people we serve.

I don't want to crawl over the entrails of past disputes.

If someone is being very cheeky, it can be quite fun to deal with that situation.

I'm not in the business of warning people.

I'm not psychic. I cannot know what is in the mind of particular public figures.

I'm supremely uninterested as to what is written in many of the newspapers.

I never aspired to be Speaker simply so I could say, 'I am the Speaker of the House of Commons,' and tell my children that.

I think the record shows that as Speaker, I have taken the lead in cleaning up politics.

It is quite wrong for party conferences to be used as an excuse for the Commons not to sit. Conferences could be held at weekends.

It's a cowardly form of politics to use my spouse to beat me.

I've never been much given to little social cliques.

Lying to a committee is a very grave abuse, and there ought to be a clear punishment.

The Conservatives must realise that being sceptical is different from being phobic in what is an interdependent world.

The prime minister's job is to captain his team, his party and his government.

There are people who are just very, very sniffy and snobby and have always sort of looked down their noses at me.