Louis Susman Quotes

I think there were times when, if circumstances had developed, I might have been tempted into politics. I am a fan of Tony Blair. I think Gordon Brown is a fine man, but I think he's headed for one hell of a bloody struggle.

I was there when Gordon Brown basically was taking over - so right in the middle of that transition. It was fantastic; I learnt a lot.

The prime minister's job is to captain his team, his party and his government.

The test of leadership for David Cameron was actually to bring the British Conservative Party back in to the mainstream.

David Cameron is no Margaret Thatcher.

I was Margaret Thatcher in the school election during the 1983 General Election.

He kind of makes me ill, David Cameron. I liked the old-fashioned Tory - like Winston Churchill, who had style. But Cameron's like a new breed - computer-generated. I hate it.

Boris Johnson is nothing like Winston Churchill.

The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War.

Imagine a State occasion where the Queen is wearing trainers with her tiara because she thinks it will make people like her better, more folksy. It's unthinkable. But that's patently the thought process Gordon Brown (or his spin doctor) went through before the Prime Minister appeared on the world stage in Beijing without his suit and tie.

For us she is not the iron lady. She is the kind, dear Mrs. Thatcher.

Al Gore has dedicated his life to detail. George W. Bush has not. He's the first to admit it.

Never have I met a politician who was as certain her or she was absolutely right as Margret Thatcher.

Thatcher was the best politician I have ever witnessed.

Margaret Thatcher was as viscerally hated at home as she was warmly respected abroad.

Margaret Thatcher was Britain's most controversial modern politician.

If you're dealing with a powerful leader, you're inevitably going to have a dialogue with her political past. It was always my intention to interrogate Thatcher's political life.

I like Tony Blair.

Sure, sexism is not confined to the Conservatives. Harriet Harman has suggested that Gordon Brown didn't make her deputy prime minister because she was a woman.

I think it's absolutely extraordinary that any Conservative MP considered even for one minute installing Jeremy Corbyn in Downing Street.

Margaret Thatcher always felt like an outsider in her party.

I like David Cameron. He has had a couple of rough statements, but that's okay, I think David Cameron's a good man.

We have a female prime minister [Theresa May] here in the UK. I actually really like her and think she's wonderful. I think it's the best thing that's happened to us in a long time.

John Redwood is a young man but, let's face it, so was Margaret Thatcher in 1975.

It is quite clear that history will record that Margaret Thatcher was the greatest Prime Minister this country has had since Churchill.