Today Lord Justice Leveson will be under huge pressure to propose some form of statutory control of the press. I hope and pray that the government will not take that backward step.
Boris Johnson, writing in the Sun 28/11/2012
Category: Quote of the Day, Free Speech
When I hear the name of Richard Body I hear the sound of flapping white coats.
John Major 1994
Category: Insulting Conservatives, Eurosceptic
It is government policy to phase out subsidies to nationalised industries. In line with this, the government hopes that the coal industry will be able to operate without the need for assistance apart from social grants.
Tony Benn 1974
Category: Subsidy, Nationalisation
There is no point in saving the currency if we lose the country that goes with it.
John Redwood 05/2003
Category: Euro (Single Currency), European Constitution
The EU will not stop wars: it wants an army to fight them.
John Redwood 2001
Category: Defence, War, Eurosceptic
It's not a case of joining the Euro: it's abolishing the pound.
John Redwood 1995
Category: Euro (Single Currency)
Wong in principle, wrong in practice.
Jacques Arnold 1997
On the euro
Category: Euro (Single Currency)
There aren't many fathers around here...If someone is old enough to father a child, he should be old enough to help bring it up.
John Redwood 02/07/1993
Free speech carries with it the evil of all foolish, unpleasant venomous things that are said but, on the whole, we would rather lump them than do away with them.
Winston Churchill
Category: Free Speech
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King 1963
Category: Justice & Sentencing
Let our object be our country, our whole country and nothing but our country.
Daniel Webster 1825
Category: English Identity, Patriotism
A single European currency was first proposed by the Nazi Reichsbank to Hitler at the time of Dunkirk. Now it is EU policy.
Sir Peter Tapsell 2001
Category: Euro (Single Currency)
Poverty is considered quaint in the rural areas because it comes thatched.
John Gummer 18/02/1985
Category: Poverty, Rural Affairs
Of all political sacred-cows, education is the most sacred and the most cow-like.
Enoch Powell 06/1968
Category: Education
I want to see the hand of history on his collar.
Anonymous 28/08/2003
A woman queueing up at the Hutton Inquiry
Category: Tony Blair (quotes about), Hutton Inquiry
A priosner is not the sort of chap the average man would be keen on taking to his club.
Lord Longford
Category: Prison
We hope to see a Europe where men of every country will think as much of being a European as of belonging to their native land, and that without losing any of their love and loyalty of their birthplace.
Winston Churchill 09/05/1948
Category: European Federalism, European Integration
