Trump Quotes by Douglas Hurd

We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.

— Douglas Hurd

Diplomacy is unfashionable in the world of knee-jerk reaction and the dogmatic sound bite on television.

— Douglas Hurd

We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgment on the past.

— Douglas Hurd

It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.

— Douglas Hurd

It depends on how it is done but what we are drifting into, which is that people grow up without any sense of a…

— Douglas Hurd

War on Iraq runs the risk of turning the Middle East into an inexhaustible recruiting ground for anti- western terrorism.

— Douglas Hurd

There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills.

— Douglas Hurd

Some people find it difficult to argue with a woman Prime Minister and shrivel up.

— Douglas Hurd

“Prison is an expensive way of making bad people worse.”

— Douglas Hurd

A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur.

— Douglas Hurd

Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values…

— Douglas Hurd

The tragedy of 9-11 galvanized the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake.

— Douglas Hurd

I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not a unanimous…

— Douglas Hurd

We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which…

— Douglas Hurd

Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but…

— Douglas Hurd