Michael Howard
Michael Howard
Michael Howard, Baron Howard of Lympne CH PC QCis a British politician who served as the Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition from November 2003 to December 2005. He had previously held cabinet positions in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major, including Secretary of State for Employment, Secretary of State for the Environment and Home Secretary...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth7 July 1941
sex past debate
I am happy to debate the past with the Prime Minister... I have a big dossier on his past, and I did not even have to sex it up.
election opinion polls
There is only one opinion poll that I am interested in and that is the one that will take place on election day.
party conservative conservative-party
I will never stand again for the leadership of the Conservative Party.
mean responsible ministers
What is Parliament for if it is not to be a means to make ministers accountable for the services for which they are responsible.
country expectations asylums
We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation.
elements common language
A common language is the most obvious binding element in any society.
trust politician dont-trust
We're not saying, 'We're politicians, trust us.' We know you don't trust us.
victory settling blair
Tony Blair is already secretly grinning at the prospect of his third victory. You don't have to settle for that.
love family happiness
We must rediscover the habit of thinking the best of each other
writing past thinking
History is what we read, write and think about the past.
wise wisdom clever
The true use of history, whether civil or military, is not to make man clever for the next time, it is to make him wise forever.
government law history
People often of masterful intelligence, trained usually in law or economics or perhaps in political science, who have led their governments into disastrous decisions and miscalculations because they have no awareness whatever of the historical background, the cultural universe, of the foreign societies with which they have to deal.
wise clever military
I make no apologies for any inconsistencies or contradictions in my essays. Those who do not change their minds in the course of a decade have probably stopped thinking all together. The true use of history, whether civil or military, is not to make man clever for the next time, it is to make him wise forever.
detention limit logic quite saying unlimited
The logic of what they are saying is that there shouldn't be any limit at all and that we should have quite unlimited detention without charge.