“At the 2017 election, I promised my wife and children that it would be my last. This is a pledge I intend to keep. If the House votes tonight for an early general election, my tenure as Speaker and MP will end when this Parliament ends. If the House does not so vote, I have concluded that the least disruptive and most democratic course of action would be for me to stand down at the close of business of Thursday, October the 31st. Least disruptive because that date will fall shortly after the votes on the Queen's Speech expected on 21st and 22nd October. The week also after that may be quite lively and it would be best to have an experienced figure in the chair for that short period.”
“It’s a point so blindingly obvious that only an extraordinarily clever and sophisticated person could fail to grasp it.”
“El orden no es un hecho, es un proceso que requiere vigilancia constante. No es algo peyorativo contra los diputados, es el modo de asegurar que el debate sigue los cauces apropiados.”
“Si hasta ahora mis palabras podrían haber contenido la más mínima ambigüedad, permítenme expresarme ahora de manera clara y sencilla: la única forma de brexit que va a haber, sea cuando sea, será un brexit que la Cámara de los Comunes haya aprobada de manera explícita.”
“No es cierto que sea el speaker más bajo que ha habido en la historia Sir John Bussy, que presidió los Comunes entre 1393 y 1398, tenía menos estatura que yo... después de ser decapitado por Enrique IV.”
“You are an incorrigible delinquent at times. Behave yourself, man!”
“... en 2019, en el Reino Unido moderno, en una democracia parlamentaria, nosotros —los parlamentarios, los legisladores— no podemos estar, en conciencia, debatiendo si se debe o no acatar la ley... Es asombroso que alguien haya incluso albergado esa eventualidad. Sería el más terrible ejemplo que podríamos dar a la sociedad.”
“You need to write out a thousand times, ""I will behave myself at Prime Minister’s Questions.”
“Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.”
“I do strongly believe myself that members of the government who sit in the House of Lords should be accountable to the elected House because otherwise there is a democratic deficit, and that is wrong.”
“I think the record shows that as Speaker, I have taken the lead in cleaning up politics.”
“Fairness is not about statistical equality.”