Douglas Hurd
Douglas Hurd
Douglas Richard Hurd, Baron Hurd of Westwell CH CBE PCis a British Conservative politician who served in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major from 1979 to 1995...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth8 March 1930
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Prison is an expensive way of making bad people worse.
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People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled 'politics'.
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Some people find it difficult to argue with a woman Prime Minister and shrivel up.
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People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance.
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It depends on how it is done but what we are drifting into, which is that people grow up without any sense of a spiritual dimension to life, is just impoverishing.
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People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled politics.
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Indeed it is a characteristic of most human beings, whether politicians or not, to flatter themselves on their knowledge of history.
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They have to weigh the undoubted benefits of ... (Iraqi President Saddam) Hussein's overthrow against the risk of turning the Middle East into an inexhaustible recruiting ground for anti-Western terrorism.
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The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake.
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Neither the Iraqi people, nor other Arab governments nor indeed Islamic fundamentalists have any reason to admire or trust Saddam Hussein.
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There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of the First World War.
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History provides no precise guidelines.
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But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.
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A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur.