There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water. — Alan Clark Copy Share Image
Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology. — Alan Clark Copy Share Image
“There are few nicer things than sitting up in bed, drinking strong tea, and reading.” — Alan Clark Copy Share Image
There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water. — Alan Clark Copy Share Image
The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them. — Alan Clark Copy Share Image
“In the last days before the attack a strange feeling, not so much of confidence as of fatalism, pervaded the German tank forces- if… — Alan Clark Copy Share Image
“Krebs, who knew some Russian and at one stage in his career had been embraced by Stalin, was "a smooth, surviving type." And so,… — Alan Clark Copy Share Image
The only solution is to kill 600 people in one night. Let the UN and Bill Clinton and everyone else make a scene -… — Alan Clark Copy Share Image
In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there… — Alan Clark Copy Share Image
There's nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague. — Alan Clark Copy Share Image
