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David A. Burch

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24 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House Of Assembly
21 words
I will use a practical example: they have been trying to prosecute one of those premiers for more than a decade.
24 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House Of Assembly
65 words
We have had not one MP be convicted or go to jail for corruption or for any-thing else. This is a small community where everybody knows everybody else. And the suggestion that you cannot get anything right smacks of . . . smacks of racism, Mr. Deputy Speaker . Now, I know that the accusations come mostly from people that …
24 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House Of Assembly
11 words
But I know that the motivation is coming from somewhere else.
24 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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23 words
On occasions like that, for me as a Minister, as a parliamentarian . . . somebody mentioned today about how they got here.
24 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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7 words
We all got here the same way.
24 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House Of Assembly
99 words
Knocking on people’s doors and convincing them that, one, we were honest; and two, we would represent their interests to the best of our ability. All of us did that. Some of us are better at delivering on it than others, but we all got here the same way. Mr. Deputy Speaker, I know that I am different. I know …
24 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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113 words
—you are kind of set in your ways and you kind of got a groove. The way that I believe that the way that the last matter we discussed in this House, to get it resolved requires you be stubborn, [requires] you be clear about where you want to end up and you . . . if you are the …
24 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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16 words
And in that case it was definitely a three- nothing vote. Me, myself and I. [Laughter]
24 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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9 words
Mr. Deputy Speaker, I am in departure lounge syndrome.
24 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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23 words
Yes, I am coming to the end of this journey and so . . . some people will celebrate at that news. [Laughter]
24 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House Of Assembly
167 words
Others will be saying other things. But the time is up. That is . . . I will leave that just where it is. But, Mr. Deputy Speaker, we cannot continue as a country being dishonest with one another. We can-not. If you want to work with me, then it has to be on the basis that you work on …
24 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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53 words
No. Mr. Deputy Speaker, I cannot believe that this is the first time I have actually been into the church. But when you walk into the building, you sense and you feel . . . and all of the people that are members of that church are older than me (most of them).
24 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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11 words
But you can sense that for them this is The Church.
24 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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278 words
This is a part of their life. This is a part of their being, and they are just so proud to have people who are not members of their church come and celebrate with them. For people in the PLP, we do that before we join the PLP. That is part of who we are and our relationship with the …
24 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House Of Assembly
73 words
It is going to be very difficult for the Opposition to get members of this party to think that you want to work with us when your cam-paign is based on demonising an individual so that people want to do physical harm to them. And the only reason why it is worse for David Burt . . . because he …
24 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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19 words
Attack the Leader, attack the Leader, attack the Leader. And the suggestion that if he goes, everything is —
24 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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83 words
Everything is called into question. If I say (as I have) [that] I am in the departure lounge, you know , if he goes, oh trust me . . . and I mean, I think that people when they get long in the tooth in this game, when the day comes that you want to say I am done, you …
24 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
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40 words
And it is time for someone else to have a turn. During this campaign, I suspect Bermuda House of Assembly that we are going to get to where we normally get to, aided and abetted by the daily newspaper —
24 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House Of Assembly
15 words
—who have not quite figured out that I do not believe they are relevant. [Laughter]
24 Nov 2023 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House Of Assembly
55 words
I do not. They asked for an interview about this matter that we just dealt with, and I said, Absolutely. I will have much to say about it on the 24 th of November in the House of Assembly where the Motion had already been tabled. And I noted that they wrote the story anyway.