Mensch Quotes

Your moral stance depends on what you think is being aborted. If you don't believe it to be a person but part of a woman's body, of course you will be pro-choice. I would be virulently pro-choice if I didn't believe it to be a person. - Louise Mensch

Whether it has been supporting Corby's new free school, or fighting for the truth on the Cube overspend and land development deals, or striving to protect the East Northamptonshire countryside, in my work as the local MP I have always been struck, as I said in my maiden speech, by the pride people have in our area. - Louise Mensch

What you want is a very pliable blood vessel that has a lot of give and take. Obesity itself appears to be an independent factor for decreased flexibility. - Sarah Blumenschein

What I enjoy doing is challenging stereotypes of what people believe a Tory must be. You don't have to say every Tory is in it for themselves - it's pathetic caricaturing that has no place in the 21st century, and if we can challenge that stereotype, then great. - Louise Mensch

We'd all survive if Twitter shut down for a short while during major riots. Social media isn't any more important than a train station, a road or a bus service. We don't worry about police temporarily closing those. Common sense. If riot info and fear is spreading by Facebook and Twitter, shut them off for an hour or two, then restore. - Louise Mensch

The nature of the internet is that you don't know who is behind the screen. - Louise Mensch

That said, I can't emphasise enough - and I hope you print this - that I absolutely don't judge anybody at all who has an abortion, nor do I think they are murderers, nor do I think they are baby killers. - Louise Mensch

Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing. - Louise Mensch

Of course women can have it all - if they want it all. I won't hear any defeatist talk. If you just dwell on problems, you won't get anywhere fast. - Louise Mensch

Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life. - Louise Mensch