Douglas Hurd Quotes

I think Churchill would be appalled at the Thatcher government.

I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes.

In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country.

Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.

My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.

We tend to think about fascism in terms of the Second World War.

David Cameron has a different style to Gordon Brown.

I have an ambivalent relationship with Margaret Thatcher. She came to power in May 1979 - a month before my 11th birthday. I was far too young to have developed a great deal of political awareness. I remember it, though - my mother excited at the dinner table because Britain had its first female prime minister.

Ukippers are the kinds of fools who haven't noticed they're sleep-walking towards fascism. Many UKIP candidates are of the age when their parents fought in the Second World War.

The people of Birmingham have a specially heavy burden for they have given the world: the curse of the present British Prime Minister [Neville Chamberlain, 1869-1940.]

If there is going to be a war – and no one can say that there is not – we must keep him fresh to be our war Prime Minister

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

I'm an opposition leader. But Mr Modi is also my prime minister. Mr Modi has certain skills. He's a very good communicator.

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.

Margaret Thatcher always felt like an outsider in her party.

Margaret Thatcher - this great lady has not only served her country well, she has served the free world well.

I'm quoting Margaret Thatcher. I quote her frequently.

I think psychologically [Margaret Thatcher] is really worth studying. I am reading Charles Moore's biography of her, and he has gotten us right there with a woman who lived the unexamined life, and lived it deliberately, and who has contempt for history, even her own.

I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.

Disraeli was my favourite Tory. He was an adventurer pure and simple, or impure and complex. I'm glad to say Gladstone got the better of him.

Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.

To a Brit of my generation, one of the most objectionable things about [Margaret] Thatcher is her falsity. She is a total construct. For one thing, she had a made-over accent.

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

The fundamental question is is the Conservative Party leadable